"Teaching the history of the British Empire links in with that of the world: for better and for worse, the Empire made us what we are, forming our national identity. A country that does not understand its own history is unlikely to respect that of others."
Antony Beevor is a British military historian and author. He was born on 1946-12-14 and is known for bestselling works on the Second World War including Stalingrad and Berlin. He was knighted for services to literature.