Plain intelligent conversation just never loses it's relevance. I truly appreciate a competent interviewer as well as the subject.

Fantastic interview. Huge props to the interviewer and to Beevor, very interesting and nuanced discussion.

Extremely refreshing to hear from someone with intelligence and knowledge that can offer something that is divorced from the usual media & political hysterics. I have read several of Mr Beevor's books, and although I have not always agreed with some of his observations, he is streets ahead of the usual commentators. I am also certain he saw this conflict coming some time ago. This is an astute interview with a wisdom rich historian who has some accurate & valid information to share here.

Excellent interview! It terrifies me how little we teach of history and how little the general populace knows and understands about history!

I could listen to Sir Anthony all day. I've got most of his books and read Stalingrad twice. Excellent... More please

I could listen to these two superior intellects all day ! Gracias, The Telegraph.

How can something be so interesting and so depressing at the same time.

Anthony Beevor is atreasure trove of historical information. Thanks for an outstanding interview,

Excellent...Antony Beevor must be the best Military Historian we have in England. Such an inspiration to listen to him. Thanku.

What an absolutely splendid interview! Bravo to both participants 👏

I could listen to Antony Beevor for hours. Have all his books, he is a treasure. So much knowledge, great memory, ability to link the past with present time - not every historian is willing to do so.

Sir Antony Beevor what a great perspective/knowledge of history!

Got to say Mr Beevor's book Staingrad is the most incredible thing i have read,incredible in so many ways.

We need more historians

I have read all of Beevor’s books… extraordinarily talented writer and historian. I have enormous respect for any views he has.

A really good interview, more if this please.

What a brilliant interview. History is very important and not least in helping to shape the future. I do hope our leaders watch this.

I love it when he mentioned Kievan Rus

I had to share this on FaceBook...I only expect a few people to listen to a historian where the interview is more than 5 minutes but I think that it is well worth listening to the whole interview. It might be an interesting challenge to see if any of my 'friends' actually take the trouble to listen to the whole interview and comment on it. I loved it and learnt quite a bit.

It was a pleasure listening to this discussion…👍

Great Antony,thankyou for your insight,again.

What an extraordinary interview... I'll be back and get notes. Really extraordinary historian Thanks Thanks 🙏🙏🙏🙏

At last an English person who undersatands Russia and Ukraine and the absurd of everything that Pootin is saying, not to mention the sheer evil of the Russians

an hour well spent. And I never knew of Marcus Aurelius Clarkus; nickname, which is perfect. Thanks Sir Anthony.

Beevor is one of the best historians we have.

Great questions ! Best interview with Beevor I've seen...

Very interesting, too bad the whole world will not hear his lessons. The russians would be in great need of that ....

Enjoyed that.

Young people who don’t know history will be doomed to repeat it. Oh how I wish I could be there to see it.

Utterly brilliant ❤

How refreshing to have an interviewer who has some knowledge of the subject matter. There should be more of it,.

Steven Edginton has certainly gone a long way towards redressing the paucity of his historical studies! A remarkably well prepared interview with a pretty magisterial command of the subject matter. Well done, and looking forward to more!

As an American in defence of the quality UK generals, I would point out the UK infantry was not in a position to take casualties like American infantry. The regiment system meant that replacements had to be from their regiment. Also, years of war meant the UK was tapped out. Patton's brutal aggression could not have been applied in the UK forces the same way.

My favourite military books author ❤

I'm glad Antony is doing well. I have almost every book he's ever written. My favorite historian.

A privilege listening to your interview with Mr Beavers ❤

Mr.Beevor is a history GOAT (tied with Kotkin).

Those who do not remember the past are condemned to repeat it. - George Santayana

Fantastic interview and conversation. Truly appreciate it and would like to see more from knowledgeable individuals like Mr Beevor

Such a fascinating man and a legendary historian. A respectful young journalist interviewing Sir Antony as well.

Great talk. Thanks

Great interviewer really good lines of questions. Thanks

What a wonderful debate. So rare to see people debate the issue and not the man. Well done.

I appreciate such interesting conversations--- studded with facts and data. We, Lithuanians , escaped the USSR in 1990 . Later other subjugated nations followed suit. If we hadn't joined the NATO in 2004 ---Orcs would have assaulted us , East Baltic states .

"The only thing we learn from history is that nobody learns from history".

Yes!, we needed Beevor to comment on the latest ruski mess, brilliant idea to bring him on.

Such a clear thinking man, incredible to listen to, even better to read.

GREAT INTERVIEW, GOOD LISTNING, POLITE AND VERY PROFFESIONAL, ITS SO GOOD TO SEE A YOUNG PERSON WITH MANNERS, = READ MANY BOOKS AND LEARN CONTEXT FROM WORLD HISTORY.

Fascinating interview with a great historian who I may not always agree with but I do respect. People sometimes say ‘oh why bother with WW2 we already know all there is to know about it’. But they are wrong there are huge amounts of information in archives around the world that could change our view on the subject. In just Moscow the Russians have lots of information on not just the Soviet side of WW2 but also on the German and East European people, actions and events pre, during and post WW2. It’s the same for the Cold War period there is so much we don’t know and in some areas probably will never know. Re Churchill I agree with Antony Beevor I’ve always seen him as a 19th century man living in the mid 20th century. He had the Imperialist, upper class views of his upbringing. That came through with his attitude to India and the other colonies and at home when he said if Labour won the 45 election they would bring in some form of Gestapo. This after spending much of the war working with Clement Attlee and other Labour politicians who had worked tirelessly to run things in Britain during the war.

Fascinating. I concur with a lot of Mr Beevor’s points, especially context which is often forgotten about in contemporary points-of-view on World War 2 in particular.

Great discussion - need more of these eminent historians and less social media grifters.

Props to the interviewer for asking a couple of questions of his own personal interest at around the 19:30 mark. Beevor's answer about the Whites went into many of the same things I've been talking about to people for years. Especially the Whites' lack of foresight and unanimity to ally the Poles, Finns and Estonians was a major blunder that probably cost them the war against the Bolsheviks.

Loved this interview tks

We need more historians AND better history curriculum here in the free world.

Brilliant. Great job both. Important interview.

Excellent.

😮 educating information

Great interview expected no less from Beevor.

Antony Bevoor is the best! Great interview, too.

One of my favorite authors.

I disagree with Beevor, Stalin did not recognise the allied bombing of Germany as a second front. Stalin was vocal in asking for a second front as soon as possible, and in that he expected nothing less than an allied army landing on the European continent. He repeatedly voiced frustration over this being delayed. The bombing campaign certainly was a second front, in 1944 there were 7500 88mm anti-aircraft guns defending the Reich. Russia’s fleet of T34s would have made no progress against that number of anti-tank guns. I also felt his apportioning of the contribution of Britain to victory in WW2 was not clearly articulated. Britain’s role was the supremacy of the Royal Navy, the offensive power of the RAF and the Enigma code breaking. We must not forget that Germany’s planned Kursk offensive in 1943 , was identified and the information passed on to Stalin directly. This played a big role in Russia concentrating their forces in the Kursk salient.

An absolutely splendid conversation. I listened in awe and with sheer delight. Pure luxury!

Great stuff! And in order to understand what kind of beliefs Russians might have, imagine that in one action, at the same time, these people can carry images of the last Tzar Nikolas and Stalin.

What I would have liked to ask was his take on why the US and Britain allowed Stalin to keep so much of Eastern Europe at the end of World War II, because this is, I think, the source of all our present geopolitical woes. Especially with the ultimate bargaining chip of the nuclear bomb in hand at the time.

This reminds me of Mad Magazine's 'Spy versus Spy' as the discussion demonstrates that world affairs seemingly constitutes myth versus myth. The greatest military weapon is deception, but one has to keep in mind that self-deception is perhaps more common - Germany's "stab in the back' being perhaps one of the best examples of an incorrect perception of events that led to an absolute disaster for humanity.

Excellent interview, I watched it twice!

Strange; the Royal Navy (rightfully) gets mentioned and patted on the back, but apart from the bombing campaigns later in the war, the RAF is ignored. What about "so many oweing so much to so few"?

Up to 20:20 very interesting ...and then started to become boring so I stopped listening . I think Antony Beevor's book about the 'Russian' civil war ( a lot of it happened in Ukraine) sounds well worth reading. I am pleased he was able to have access to Ukrainian archives.

Anthony beevor is a top notch historian his book on Stalingrad is superb and his recent one on the Russian civil war 1917 to 1921 is excellent too

I loved reading Mr. Beevor's work. He is one of the great historians of all time. We are fortunate to have such a distinguished scholar at this difficult time.

I remember history class was boring during elementary school, but as I matured I recognized how important it is. It is crucial that it be acuarate and true. Everything from government, legislation, even technology depends on it.

Sir Antony James Beevor quite brilliant, indeed. Fascinating interview.

Hi great interview. Thanks for sharing. My observation is that I see a parallel between Putin’s history essay and the monologue in the Tucker C interview showing his pervererted view of history, and Hitler’s Mein Kampf. Both Mein Kampf and Putin’s essay are ideological pamphlets. Both distort history. Both try to justify expansion by force. Both ascribe to their nation (their people) a quasi holy destiny. Both form the basis of how history is thought in schools. Both require enthousiastic acceptance, and dissent is criminalized. And both are being executed as the screenplay of a bloody war. History repeats itself.

Top notch interview and video. Extremely important! Thanks a lot

Great interview. Thanks for that.

21:03 "to defeat Denikin coming up from the South". Disappointing to see that he does NOT mention the contribution of the Black Army in this events, and the fact that perhaps the Bolsheviks gave Donetsk and Lugansk to the young Ukrainian Soviet Republic, as a gift for that contribution in defeating Denikin. Antony Beevor is speaking, ( to make a comparison ), as in Spanish Civil War, and the Ebro Battle of 1938, the Catalan influence, or the International Brigades were NOT part of the conflict..

Excellent bravo gents!!

My stepdad who passed last year would have enjoyed this interview. He was the one who introduced me to Beevor’s extraordinary books, I haven’t looked back since.

I can not agree more: history must be taught in schools!

How can people not see the similarities of pre WW2 and the Ukraine War right now?

Monologue of Putin, I like it. As dialogue indicates two people are chatting but Putin basically took Tucker under verbalised hostage. Then tortured him on camera, there was one point where Tucker didn't know what was going on. We lost all logic and reason when Tucker asked him about what about killer AI from the future, then Putin not seeing the joke went on another serious rant on the data for that possibility. My soul died listening to Putin.

Thanks for the interview Steven. Just reading Stalingrad. An excellent book.

Wow 🤩. So informative and insightful

It may well be my own denseness, but this interview, while containing some fascinating analysis, seems to wander around without being firmly focused on a central question. The title suggested that there was one, but then it seemed to wander around in the general area of the implications of WW2 for British national identity, school history teaching, etc. Antony Beevor may be a fine storyteller (and he is in my opinion and the opinion of very many others), and an effective researcher, but his is usually not a deep and complex analysis of the topics he writes about. I think it shows in this interview, in that he doesn’t appear to help guide the interviewer into more coherent and relevant historical and political waters. Glad to see, however, that few here share my view: ah the richness of variety!

How could Russia belong to the borderlands? 😂😂😂😂

Great author...I love your books Antony. Some of the best historical and war related books I've ever read. Dynamic and hard to out down.

Always superb.

Two Off Script interviews in as many days! What a treat.

The reality is that many people in eastern Ukraine consider themselves Russian and while Putin and the military have made mistakes, Ukraine has made many more - for instance, banning Russian as a language. General; Skirsky speaks Russian and only rudimentary Ukrainian and Zelenskyy speaks Ukrainian poorly with a very heavy Russian accent. And the Russians quickly learn from their mistakes. Putin has managed to build enormous unity in Russia against 'the west' and win the vast majority of the rest of the world to be 'against' the west and this is not just down to 'propaganda'. Russia has a strong case in Ukraine. The Russians took the statue of Potemkin incidentally because the Ukrainian nationalists said they would destroy it - AB knows this.

Antony Beevor cannot stop talking about Putin. Putin will never know Antony Beevor exists.

Excellent Ukraine 🇺🇦 Canada 🇨🇦

As someone not far off his eighties I have never heard just how our - the UK's- different views and understanding of our history has completely changed over my lifetime so clearly expressed. Intelligence shared, nothing better.

Very good interview. We want more!

He’s a international treasure Scholar and a gentleman

great man and very fascinating talk

What an excellent program Mr Beevor is anational treasure what a treat utter joy wonderful

The problem with teaching history is not only the subjects covered, but also that it's so easy to teach badly. It's not just about learning dates and "facts"; it's about learning how to think, to question and to analyze. Not only is it lazy to approach history teaching by only focusing on the former, but some countries' education systems discourage or deliberately stymie the development of critical thinking skills.

thanks for posting

I read all Beevor’s books, some multiple times. So it was greatly rewarding to hear him talking, the way he carries himself, formulates his thoughts. He certainly is at least as good a speaker as he is a writer.

Kudos. An excellent interview.