An Evening with Antony Beevor

[Village Books]

We?re delighted to be welcoming bestselling author Antony Beevor back to Dulwich in May! Antony will be discussing his new book Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 with Sam Leith, Literary Editor of The Spectator magazine.

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky?s Red Army and Lenin?s single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man?s inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British Empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts.

Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd, to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.

Antony Beevor?s books have been appeared in thirty-three languages and sold over eight million copies. Antony?s last book Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 was an instant Sunday Times bestseller.

Date: Tuesday 24th May, 7.30pm

Venue: The MCT at Alleyn's, Alleyn's School, Townley Road, East Dulwich SE22 8SU

Tickets:

Book & Ticket ?40 (includes a copy of Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921 by Antony Beevor, RRP ?30)

Standard ticket ?15

Concessions ?12

Ticket Link: https://bit.ly/3DgkKfn