Tom, this is about as off-topic as I can get, but what do think of Antony Beevor as a military historian? I know your fondness for Max Hastings (who's certainly a terrific writer), but what about Beevor, who seems to cover a lot of the same stuff. I'm about to start his book on Crete and Crete matters to me a great deal, since I lived i…
Tom, this is about as off-topic as I can get, but what do think of Antony Beevor as a military historian? I know your fondness for Max Hastings (who's certainly a terrific writer), but what about Beevor, who seems to cover a lot of the same stuff. I'm about to start his book on Crete and Crete matters to me a great deal, since I lived in Chania for awhile in 1971 and actually met several veteran freedom fighters. I would have most of my meals just down the waterfront from the stadium where the Nazis rounded up all the Jews in and put them on a boat, which they sank in clear view of everyone on that waterfront. I was there when Agnew decided to visit and when the stadium filled up, my waiter (and just about everyone else who was old enough to have been there during the war) stopped dead and were caught speechless. when my waiter recovered a few minutes later, he told me that the only time the stadium had been that full was the day of the roundup.
Beevor's good. I liked his book on Stalingrad a lot, as well as D-Day, Battle of the Bulge and Arnhem. Haven't gotten into a lot of the Russian history, but he's generally well-regarded.
Tom, this is about as off-topic as I can get, but what do think of Antony Beevor as a military historian? I know your fondness for Max Hastings (who's certainly a terrific writer), but what about Beevor, who seems to cover a lot of the same stuff. I'm about to start his book on Crete and Crete matters to me a great deal, since I lived in Chania for awhile in 1971 and actually met several veteran freedom fighters. I would have most of my meals just down the waterfront from the stadium where the Nazis rounded up all the Jews in and put them on a boat, which they sank in clear view of everyone on that waterfront. I was there when Agnew decided to visit and when the stadium filled up, my waiter (and just about everyone else who was old enough to have been there during the war) stopped dead and were caught speechless. when my waiter recovered a few minutes later, he told me that the only time the stadium had been that full was the day of the roundup.
Beevor's good. I liked his book on Stalingrad a lot, as well as D-Day, Battle of the Bulge and Arnhem. Haven't gotten into a lot of the Russian history, but he's generally well-regarded.
thanks, Tom.
I'm intersted in the answer too as I have read all his books