The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

Compelling … as engaging a read as Stalingrad and Berlin * Guardian *
Fascinating. An intricate, gracefully told and often moving social history of a talented family in times of revolution, civil war, dictatorship and world conflict – Rachel Polonsky * New Statesman *
A fascinating spy story, a delicious entertainment, a compelling investigation – Simon Sebag-Montefiore * Evening Standard *
An extraordinary drama of exile and espionage – Boyd Tonkin * Independent *
Beevor uses the story to evoke a world - the vague ideological borderlands of Nazism and Communism – Felipe Fernández-Armesto * The Times *
Antony Beevor, one of the finest narrative military historians now writing, is a master of revealing vignettes – Eliot A. Cohen * New York Times *
A true story that is dramatic, evocative, and well worth unearthing * Observer *

Antony Beevor is the author of:

• Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize)
• Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History, and Hawthornden Prize)
• Berlin: The Downfall
• The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia)
• D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal)
• The Second World War
• Ardennes 1944 (Prix Medicis shortlist)
• Arnhem

Beevor is the number one bestselling historian in Britain. His books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over eight million copies.

A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London. He was knighted in 2017.

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