96 Quotes by Antony Beevor

Of course history is easily manipulated - though that makes it even more important for us to know what actually happened.

Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.

Historical truth and the marketing needs of the movie and television industry remain fundamentally incompatible.

I love 'Blackadder,' but history it certainly ain't.

Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.

Restorers of paintings and pottery follow a code of conduct in their work to distinguish the original material from what they are adding later.

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

The greatest heroes of the Normandy battlefield were the unarmed medics, whom snipers often shot at despite their Red Cross armbands.

The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.