Has Antony Beevor "dried up"?

[panzermahn]

Hello all,

Has Antony Beevor "dried up"? The last news I heard is that Beevor is preparing a book about Normandy to the liberation of Paris (wait, hasn't he wrote the Liberation of Paris with his wife, Artemis Cooper?)

Ever since Beevor's Berlin: The Downfall has been released back in 2004, it seems most of Beevor's book after it (Battle for Spain, The Mystery of Olga Chekhova,) hasn't received much accolades like how his Stalingrad and Berlin books.

And it seems Beevor doesn't have a particular "forte" like how Le Tissier (mostly of Berlin and other Endkampf), Kershaw and other British historians...


Panzermahn

[hucks216]

As far as I am aware Anthony Beevor's next book about D-Day/Normandy is due to be released in June 2009.

[phylo_roadking]

At the minute he seems instead to be doing the rounds of various "high brow" game shows here in the UK....

[panzermahn]

At the minute he seems instead to be doing the rounds of various "high brow" game shows here in the UK....

Hi Phylo

High Brow game shows? Pardon me for my ignorance but what's that?

Panzermahn

[phylo_roadking]

"High Brow" as in the kind of niche interest game show where they pit experts in a field against each other...or against general knowledge or something. There's quite a few over here, we've quite a history of "specialist" shows like that - such as this classic http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Going_for_a_Song...not the kind of thing that's likely to get sold abroad for syndication!!!

In Beevor's case it was the The Book Quiz...http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00jdw5h/The_Book_Quiz_Series_3_Episode_8/...but you might not be able to play it there, and it'll go off the BBC iplayer archive in a day or so.

He seems to be concentrating on the "celebrity" side of "celebrated author" at the minute....

[panzermahn]

Hi Phylo

Thanks for the information. I hope Beevor doesn't turn out to be the English version of Guido Knopp for WW2 history-based authors

Panzermahn

[phylo_roadking]

Well....you're "only as good as your last book" - but a jump to media personality for those few that can do it keeps the money rolling in...

[michael kenny]

As far as I am aware Anthony Beevor's next book about D-Day/Normandy is due to be released in June 2009.

At least I will find out if all the claims about his shallow reseach are true!

[phylo_roadking]

He's been at it again - this time an hour-long documentary on Channel Five in the UK two nights ago touring Berlin's OTHER WWII-era bunkers...

You know - this sounds like a case of "writers' block". I remember Robert Harris did the same - did a documentary ABOUT having writer's block when he ran into the wall after the first three chapters of Enigma and stuck there for almost two years...

(Pity he hadn't blanked out Archangel entirely.... )

[Rolf Steiner]

Didn't the spain one precede Stalingrad and Berlin? Had an idea they just reissued it on the back of those.

[hucks216]

As far as I am aware Anthony Beevor's next book about D-Day/Normandy is due to be released in June 2009.

At least I will find out if all the claims about his shallow reseach are true!

Amazon are now taking pre-orders for £12.50 and have it listed as a release on 27th May.

[panzermahn]

Looks like Antony Beevor will have an upcoming book this June 2012:

http://www.amazon.com/Second-World-War- ... pd_sim_b_9