Antony James Beevor, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature is an English military historian, educated at Winchester College and Sandhurst.
Background
He is descended from a long line of writers, being a son of "Kinta" Beevor (born Carinthia Jane Waterfield, 22 December 1911 – 29 August 1995), herself the daughter of Lina Waterfield, and a descendant of Lucie Duff-Gordon (author of a travelogue on Egypt).
Education
He studied under the military historian John Keegan, and is a former officer with the 11th Hussars, who served in England and Germany for five years before resigning his commission.
Career
He has published several popular histories on the Second World War and the 20th century in general. Beevor is a visiting professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck, University of London. Kinta Beevor wrote A Tuscan Childhood.
Antony Beevor is married to biographer Artemis Cooper.
They have two children, Nella and Adam.