Top 61 Quotes by Antony Beevor

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.

The memory of the Second World War hangs over Europe, an inescapable and irresistible point of reference. Historical parallels are usually misleading and dangerous.

It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you for a long time afterwards.

The punishment of shaving a woman's head had biblical origins. In Europe, the practice dated back to the Dark Ages with the Visigoths.

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

I was in Estonia when a professor asked me if I was aware that making any criticism of the Red Army during the war was now an imprisonable offence. I was quite shaken.

One has this image of the Soviet state and the Red Army as being extremely disciplined but in the first four months of 1945 their soldiers were completely out of control.