Citizen Soldier: The First Wold War with Hew Strachan & Anthony Beevor

Preeminent scholar of WWI, Sir Hew Strachan, sits down with WWII historian Sir Antony Beevor to discuss the world’s first truly global conflict.

HEW STRACHAN is an award-winning author, historian and military strategist that was the recipient of the 2016 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. Author of 14 major publications, including the first installment of his groundbreaking three-volume work on the Great War, The First World War (To Arms), Strachan is known for his incredibly detailed and carefully researched writings. His research interests center on the military history and strategic studies, with interest in the First World War and the history of the British Army. Strachan continuously expands the traditional narrow narrative beyond the trenches of the Western Front to consider the conflict's global implications, a method particularly resonant in our increasingly globalized society.

ANTONY BEEVOR is a renowned British historian and bestselling author best known for his writings on World War II, which have been published in more than 30 languages and have sold more than six million copies worldwide. He is the author of Crete – The Battle and the Resistance, (Runciman Prize); Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and  Hawthornden Prize for Literature); D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, (Prix Henry Malherbe and the Royal United Services Institute Westminster Medal); and The Second World War. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, Beevor has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, East Anglia, York, and Kent, where he is also a visiting professor. He is the recipient of the 2014 Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.