D-Day: The Battle for Normandy - Softcover

Beevor, Antony

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9780141048130: D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

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ISBN 10: 0141048131 ISBN 13: 9780141048130

Publisher: Penguin, 2010

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By Beevor, Antony ( Author ) [ D-Day: The Battle for Normandy By Sep-2010 Paperback

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Review:

As powerful and authoritative an account of the battle for Normandy as we are likely to get in this generation (Max Hastings Sunday Times)

A brilliantly co-ordinated and almost overwhelmingly upsetting history. Beevor is singularly expert at homing in on those telltale human details that reveal just what it would have been like to be in Normandy in the summer of 1944 (Craig Brown Mail on Sunday)

No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail (Christopher Silvester Daily Express)

Beevor's previous books led us to expect something special from D-Day, and he does not disappoint. Beevor has a particularly keen eye for the apercu or quotation that brings an experience - very often a gory one - to life (Andrew Roberts Sunday Telegraph)

Compulsive. Beevor tells it all with the soldier's eye for what matters on the ground as much as with the historian's for the broader understanding of events (Allan Mallinson The Times)

From the Back Cover:

'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' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
'Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history' David Edgar, Guardian

Praise for Stalingrad:
'Superb. Beevor combines a soldier's understanding of war's realities with the narrative technique of a novelist. A tour de force' Orlando Figes, Sunday Telegraph
'As readable and as captivating as a Tolstoyan epic drama of the scope of War and Peace. Revealing, profound and thoroughly unputdownable, Stalingrad is an extraordinary achievement which transcends its genre' Vitali Vitaliev, Daily Telegraph

Praise for Berlin - The Downfall:
'Stalingrad was, I thought, as good as it gets. But Berlin is even better. If you ever needed reminding why war is something we should move heaven and earth to avoid, this will do it' Jeremy Paxman, Guardian

'Beevor tells the savage, gripping story of the fall of the city with brilliance and a humane attention to the impact of an epic battle on fragile, individual lives' Helen Dunmore, The Times

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