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Beevor's best-known books are 'Stalingrad' (1998) and 'Berlin: The Downfall 1945' (2002). Both focus on the battles between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany and draw on documents from Soviet archives. His works have sold more than 8.5 million copies and been translated into 35 languages.
'Berlin: The Downfall 1945' drew on Soviet archives to document mass rapes carried out by the Red Army in 1945. Russian ambassador Grigory Karasin accused Beevor of "lies, slander and blasphemy" against the Red Army. Kremlin-supporting media repeatedly called him "the chief slanderer of the Red Army."
Ukraine banned 'Stalingrad' in January 2018 over its description of war crimes committed by Ukrainian nationalists collaborating with Nazi forces, specifically the execution of children. Beevor identified his source as an Abwehr officer named Helmuth Groscurth and demanded an apology and reversal of the ban.
Beevor trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was commissioned in the 11th Hussars on the 28th of July 1967. He served in England and Germany, commanding a troop of tanks, and was promoted to lieutenant on the 28th of January 1969 before resigning his commission on the 5th of August 1970.
'Stalingrad' won the first Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature. Beevor received the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum and Library's Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing, which carried a US$100,000 purse. He was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2017 New Year Honours.
Beevor's works have been translated into 35 languages, with more than 8.5 million copies sold. He has written on subjects ranging from the Battle of Stalingrad to the Spanish Civil War, the Normandy landings, and the Russian Revolution.