Sir Antony Beevor FRSL, FRHistS, served as a regular officer with the 11th Hussars. He left the British Army after five years to write and his work has appeared in thirty-four foreign languages and sold more than eight million and a half copies. Beevor’s work has won several prizes, including the Runciman Prize, the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. He has also contributed to several books and has lectured at many staff colleges and military headquarters in different countries. He was made a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1997 and in 2008 was awarded the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana by the President of Estonia. In 2016 he was made Commandeur de l’Ordre de la Couronne in Belgium for his book on the Ardennes. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society, he was the 2002-2003 Lees-Knowles lecturer at Cambridge. He is an honorary Fellow of King’s College London and has received degrees of Doctor of Letters from four other universities. He was knighted in 2017.