"It was only after five years in the……" — Antony Beevor

"It was only after five years in the army, when I was having to do a very boring job in a very boring place, that I thought: 'Why not try writing a novel?' partly out of youthful arrogance and partly because there had been a long line of writers in my mother's family."

— Antony Beevor

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