Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.
Antony Beevor's latest book is Ardennes 1944 - Hitler's Last Gamble. 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), Berlin - The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy, (Prix Henry Malherbe and the Royal United Services Institute Westminster Medal). His next work The Second World War was another No. 1 international bestseller. His books have appeared in more than thirty languages and have sold more than six and a half million copies. According to the Bookseller, 'Beevor is the bestselling historian of the BookScan era'. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Kent, Bath, East Anglia and York, and he is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent. In 2014, he received the Pritzker Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
A knockout reassessment of one of the Second World War's great
set-piece battles. Swoops from the vicious close-quarter fighting
in the hedgerows to the petrified French onlookers and onwards to
the political leaders wrestling with monumental decisions
*Sunday Times*
Beevor has succeeded brilliantly. D-Day can sit proudly alongside
his other masterworks on Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin.
Superbly brings the events of that summer to life again
*Daily Telegraph*
As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there. .
. It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the
excitement
*Guardian*
Impeccable, splendid, thoroughly researched and gripping. Beevor is
master of narrative, expertly blending the grand sweep with the
telling anecdote
*Observer*
Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the
reputation of military history
*Guardian*
His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a
general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative
history, whose giants include Gibbon, Macaulay and Carlyle
*Independent*
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