Rebels, renegades, repressed homosexuals, drunks, poets and a cross-dressing spy … the great historian is loving the BBC’s thrillingly faithful account of the fighting force’s origins – including its heavy metal soundtrack
He groaned at Valkyrie and despaired at Saving Private Ryan. The award-winning historian takes aim at the war films that make him furious – and reveals his own favourite
Letters: Donald Filtzer says Antony Beevor was wrong to assert that most Russian archives were closed to foreign historians in 2000, while Zofia Nowinska puts Finland’s wartime alliance with Germany in context
As Anita Leslie's memoir, Train to Nowhere, illustrates, the second world war was an opportunity for some to embark on a six-year-long adventure, writes Robert McCrum
‘This is rock-star history!’ – Antony Beevor on the gung-ho brilliance of SAS Rogue Heroes