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Jul 31, 2024 | 
perspectivemedia.com | Antony Beevor |Ash Ranpura
The streets and cafés of Paris have long provided a stage for the theatre of everyday life, perhaps more than in any other city. Jean-Paul Sartre noted in the Café de Flore on Boulevard Saint-Germain how waiters played at the role of waiter, delivering an order with a nonchalant flourish. The phenomenon of the waiter as subconscious actor was brought into his major work, L’Être et le Néant, that largely unreadable bible of Existentialist philosophy.
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May 30, 2024 | 
abc.es | Antony Beevor |Raquel Pelaez |Raquel Peláez
Momentos de locura, actos heroicos, deserciones, ataques inútiles e incluso paradas en medio de un bombardeo para tomar el té... El 6 de junio de 1944 daba comienzo la batalla de Normandía. Escucha la historia que relató el prestigioso historiador británico Antony Beevor en el nuevo pódcast de Las voces de XLSemanal.
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May 5, 2024 | 
programme.chalkefestival.com | James Holland |Dan Jones |Calder Walton |Antony Beevor
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Antony Beevor |Steven Edginton
“I was talking to somebody who worked very closely with Putin in St Petersburg back in the 1980s and even then he was obsessed about Ukraine. So this one does go back a very long way. Nobody really took it seriously. And we made this mistake before....in the 1930s. The British and the French couldn’t imagine anybody would want to have another war after the First World War.
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Feb 11, 2024 | 
antonybeevor.com | Rafael Núñez Florencio |Antony Beevor
“All in all, perhaps the best general work on the war to be published in the last decades.” “The Battle for Spain looks likely to become the standard account of the conflict for at least the next generation.” SynopsisA prototype version of this book was researched in the late 1970s soon after the death of General Franco and was published in 1982.
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Jan 11, 2024 | 
shepherd.com | John McManus |Charles Macdonald |Antony Beevor |Peter Caddick-Adams
How many historians can claim to have fought in the Battle of the Bulge as a rifle company commander, documented it as a combat historian, and then written about it as a popular author? Only the great Charles B. MacDonald. In this remarkable work, published on the fortieth anniversary of the battle, he managed to convey both the human and strategic dimensions without missing a rhetorical beat.
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Nov 24, 2023 | 
lemonde.fr | Antony Beevor
Débats Histoire Alors que vient de sortir « Napoléon », réalisé par Ridley Scott, Antony Beevor revient, dans une tribune au « Monde », sur cette idée selon laquelle l’histoire est façonnée par des individus hors norme. L’historien britannique estime qu’elle n’a jamais cessé d’influencer les politiques, et plus particulièrement les autocrates populistes contemporains. Temps de Lecture 8 min.
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Nov 18, 2023 | 
elpais.com | Antony Beevor
El próximo viernes, el infatigable cineasta sir Ridley Scott estrenará su épica biografía de Napoleón. La posibilidad de estudiar el poder y la ambición ha hecho que Napoleón —el gran hombre ideal de la historia— haya fascinado a muchos directores, empezando por Abel Gance, cuya película muda de 1927 es, para muchos, la mejor obra cinematográfica de todos los tiempos.
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Nov 16, 2023 | 
afr.com | Antony Beevor
OpinionLife & LuxuryArts & CultureReviewThe theory that history is defined by alpha males feels unfashionable and offensive – but we can’t let it go. Antony BeevorNov 17, 2023 – 10.29am or Subscribe to save articleThis month, Ridley Scott will release his epic biopic of Napoleon. As a study of power and ambition, Napoleon – the archetypal Great Man of history – has fascinated many directors, not least Abel Gance whose silent film of 1927 is often cited as the finest cinematic work ever made.
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Nov 13, 2023 | 
telegraph.co.uk | Leaf Arbuthnot |Philip Johnston |Ed Cumming |Antony Beevor
Stripped to the essentials of its plot, Jungle House is very strange indeed. A 20-year-old orphan, Lena, lives in a grand house in a jungle, where she spends her days fishing, hunting and kvetching with her adoptive mother. The land beyond the boundaries of the property is stalked by dangerous rebels, but Lena can't bring herself to leave for a place of greater safety, as that would mean abandoning Mother, who's rooted to the spot - literally, since she is the house itself.
