2017.02.19 军事历史学家安东尼-贝弗尔爵士

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Kirsty Young's castaway is military historian, Sir Antony Beevor. His books about some of the key battles of the Second World War are best-sellers and have been credited with reinvigorating the whole genre. There was little indication of this future success while he was boarder at Winchester public school where he failed to pass either his History or his English A levels.

During the five years he spent in the army, including two years at Sandhurst for officer training, he studied history under the great military historian, John Keegan. On deciding he wanted to be a writer, his first three novels had limited success, and he was encouraged by his publishers to draw on his experience of army life and turn his talents to military history.

His ground-breaking work Stalingrad was based on what he discovered in the Russian military archives and won him the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize. In his book Berlin: the Downfall 1945, he wrote about the mass rapes of German women committed by the Red Army at the end of the war. He was knighted in the 2017 New Year honours list. He is married to the writer Artemis Cooper.



军事历史学家安东尼-贝弗尔爵士。他关于第二次世界大战中一些关键战役的书是畅销书，并被认为重振了整个流派的活力。当他在温彻斯特公立学校寄宿时，几乎没有任何迹象表明他未来的成功，在那里他的历史和英语A级考试都没有通过。

在他参军的五年里，包括在桑德赫斯特接受军官培训的两年，他在伟大的军事历史学家约翰-基冈的指导下学习历史。当他决定要成为一名作家时，他的前三部小说取得了有限的成功，出版商鼓励他利用他的军队生活经验，将他的才能转向军事历史。

他的开创性作品《斯大林格勒》是基于他在俄罗斯军事档案中发现的内容，并为他赢得了塞缪尔-约翰逊奖、沃尔夫森历史奖和霍桑登奖。在他的《柏林：1945年的衰落》一书中，他写到了战争结束时红军对德国妇女的大规模强奸行为。他在2017年的新年荣誉名单中被授予骑士称号。他的妻子是作家阿特米斯-库珀。