Covering the months from January to May in 1945, as Soviet and other Allied troops advanced to Berlin, freelance British historian Beevor (Stalingrad) opts for direct narrative with overheard quotes ...
American historian Alexander Motyl tackles a taboo subject in his new book A Russian in Berlin, a novel about memories of mass rape by Red Army troops of German women and pubescent girls in the summer ...
NPR's Linda Wertheimer talks with military historian Antony Beevor about what happens when tyrannical regimes are deposed. In the case of Iraq, Beevor suggests that even if the population is glad to ...