Antony BeevorANTONY BEEVOR is the author of 13 works of nonfiction, including Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (1991), which was awarded a Runciman Prize; Stalingrad (1998), which won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for istory and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (2009), which received the Prix Henry Malherbe in France and the Westminster Medal from the Royal United Services Institute, and was a No 1 Bestseller in seven countries. His most recent work is the 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. Educated at Sandhurst, Beevor served as regular officer with the 11th Hussars, leaving the Army after five years to write. Read More Read Less