Literary Supplement, where he strongly criticized Peter Balakian's 2003 book The Burning Tigris, saying that Balakian "should stick to the poems". Stone praised Guenter Lewy, Bernard Lewis and France-based scholar Gilles Veinstein, all of whom do not believe a genocide took place. In 2009, he argued: "The myth of Winston Churchill is dangerous. Was it a sensible strategy in 1944 and 1945 to bomb Germany to bits? It was very bad realpolitik, whatever its moral purpose." In his obituary of Stone in The Guardian, the historian Richard J. Evans stated that unlike Niall Ferguson or A.J.P. Taylor, ''Stone's provocations were little more than the voicing of his own personal political prejudices, and so had little or no effect on the way we think about the past". Stone described John Keegan's The Second World War as his preferred book on WWII, saying: 'There have been many and varied, and sometimes splendid, books on The Second World War, but my own preference is John Keegan's The Second World War (1990)'. Writing Stone's book of greatest note is The Eastern Front 1914-1917 (1975) which won the Wolfson History Prize. He also wrote Hitler (1980), Europe Transformed 1878-1919 (1983), which won the Fontana History of Europe Prize, and World War I: A Short History (2007). Personal life While in Vienna in the 1960s, Stone met (Marie) Nicole Aubry, the niece of the finance minister in "Papa Doc" Duvalier's Haiti dictatorship. They married on 2 July 1966 and had two sons, Nick (born 1966), a thriller writer, and Sebastian (born 1972). Stone and his first wife divorced in 1977. On 11 August 1982, he married Christine Margaret Booker (née Verity), a leading member of the British Helsinki Human Rights Group. They had a son, Rupert (born 1983), and remained married until her death on 15 November 2016. According to Evans, he suffered from alcoholism. Stone owned a house in the Galata neighbourhood of Istanbul, and divided his time between Turkey and England. He spent the last years of his life in Budapest. Published works The Eastern Front, 1914-1917 (1975); Hitler (1980); Hodder and Stoughton Europe Transformed, 1878-1919 (1983), ; 2nd ed. (1999); The Makers of English History (1987), (ed.) Weidenfeld and Nicolson Czechoslovakia: Crossroads and Crises, 1918-88 (1989); The Times Atlas of World History (1989); (ed.) The Other Russia (1990); (with Michael Glenny) Turkey in the Russian Mirror, in Ljubica Erickson and Mark Erickson (ed.),