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When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.
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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.
Antony Beevor
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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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The vital thing for me is to integrate the history from above with the history from below because only in that way can you show the true consequences of the decisions of Hitler or Stalin or whomever on the ordinary civilians caught up in the battle.
Antony Beevor -
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.
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What is terrifying is the ability, through mass brainwashing or propaganda, to change normal human instinct, which does not necessarily contain very much hatred.
Antony Beevor -
Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.
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The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.
Antony Beevor
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Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.
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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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Alpacas are very endearing, and they all have very different personalities.
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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 have come across both inspiring teachers of history and deplorable ones over the years, so one cannot generalise, except perhaps to observe that the profession seems to encourage anti-militarist sentiments.
Antony Beevor