"I used to write in a room overlooking……" — Antony Beevor
"I used to write in a room overlooking the valley from where I could see too much, whether checking the sheep and alpacas or seeing the trout rise on the lake."
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49 Quotes by Antony Beevor
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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…
- I just write the sort of book that I would enjoy reading myself, a book that is both scholarly and…
- It takes me three or four years to research and write each book and the individual stories stay with you…
- The British bombing of Caen beginning on D-Day in particular was stupid, counter-productive and above all very close to a…
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- The duty of a historian is simply to understand and then convey that understanding, no more than that.
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