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.

His best known works the best-selling Stalingrad and Berlin - The Downfall 1945 recount the World War II battles between the Soviet Union and Germany. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th Hussars who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission. O.

He has publiAntony Beevord several popular histories on World War II and the 20th century in general. He is also a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.