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Antony Beevor is a British historian, who studied under the world-famous military historian, John Keegan. Beevor served as an officer with the 11th Hussars, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, in England and Germany for 5 years, before resigning to write. He has published four novels, and eight books of non-fiction. They include Inside the British Army, Crete - The Battle and the Resistance, which was awarded a Runciman Prize for stimulating interest in Greek history, and Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949, co-authored with his wife Artemis Cooper. Stalingrad (1998), won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature in 1999. His recent books Berlin - The Downfall 1945 (2002), and, the latest, D-Day - The Battle for Normandy (June 2009), have both been No. 1 bestsellers. His books have so far sold over four million copies.

http://www.antonybeevor.com/ - Antony Beevor's website.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/jul/25/antony-beevor-author-faction - Antony Beevor in The Guardian about 'Faction'.

Antony Beevor will be featured at the following events:

Friday 29 January, 8.00 PM - 10.00 PM, No. 10, Law Court Square, Galle Fort: Literary Dinner

Sunday 31 January, 2.15 PM - 3.15 PM, Hall de Galle: Playing Fast and Loose with History

Please click on Programme for more details about these events!