Antony Beevor Quotes About Death, Comrades, Danger, History, Love

Antony Beevor Quotes:

A blend of fact and fiction has been used in various forms since the dawn of creative writing, starting with sagas and epic poems.
Antony Beevor

Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.
Antony Beevor

At the beginning of June 1944, the war was reaching a climax. German troops had been brutalised by t he savagery of the ongoing fighting in Russia, where the Red Army was secretly preparing its vast encirclement of the Germans’ Army Group Centre.
Antony Beevor

Entertainment history is now the main source of supposedly historical knowledge for more and more people, but ‘histo-tainment’ is superficial and lacks all context.
Antony Beevor

Every country has its own perspective on the Second World War. This is not surprising when experiences and memories are so different.
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
Antony Beevor

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I am not someone who believes I am going to find a historical scoop.
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I believe passionately in preemptive pessimism, especially before a book comes out. I expect the worst both from reviewers and sales, and then, with any luck, I may be proved wrong.
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I can’t envisage stopping writing.
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I feel slightly uneasy at the way historians are consulted as if history is going to repeat itself. It never does.
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I get slightly obsessive about working in archives because you don’t know what you’re going to find. In fact, you don’t know what you’re looking for until you find it.
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I joined the Army in 1965 and served with the 11th Hussars, which I loved. The regiment was so relaxed – a salute was more like a friendly wave.
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I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
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I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and recreates the experience of people at that time.
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I read round the subject, I make a skeleton outline, and then I start work in the relevant archives. During the marshaling of the material, I copy the material from each archive file across to the relevant chapter in the skeleton outline.
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I think it’s outrageous if a historian has a ‘leading thought’ because it means they will select their material according to their thesis.
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I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake.
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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.
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If you smash a city when you’re trying to capture it, you actually end up providing the perfect terrain for the defenders while blocking the access for your own armoured vehicles.
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I’m often reassured in a bizarre – perhaps perverse – way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my assumptions have been. That’s interesting and exciting.
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In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.
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