"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 is a British military historian and author. He was born on 1946-12-14 and is known for bestselling works on the Second World War including Stalingrad and Berlin. He was knighted for services to literature.