The Second World War - Softcover

Antony Beevor

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780225644 ISBN 13: 9781780225647

Publisher: W andN, 2014

Synopsis

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.

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Review:

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)

The myriad pieces of this intricate kaleidoscope are pieced together with exemplary skill ... This is a splendid book, erudite, with an admirable clarity of thought and expression (Roger Moorhouse INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

His accounts of the key moments in the Second World War have a sense of colour, drama and immediacy that few narrative historians can match (Dominic Sandbrook SUNDAY TIMES)

You feel yourself being carried along on the narrative flow, channelled this way and that through the pools and rapids by Beevor's expert helmanship (Patrick Bishop STANDPOINT)

Brocaded with details of the great campaigns and thoughtful explanations of Hitler's murderous belligerence, The Second World War is an absorbing, unsparingly lucid work of military history (Ian Thomson THE SPECTATOR)

Beevor's book is a pleasure to read and an example of intelligent, lively historical writing at its best (Tony Barber FINANCIAL TIMES)

This is as comprehensive and objective an account of the course of the war as we are likely to get, and the most humanly moving to date (John Gray NEW STATESMAN)

A British historian of great distinction and range, who ... demonstrates his mastery of his sources (Gordon Craig NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS)

A magnificent performance - true excitement from one page to the next delivered in faultless prose (Christoper Silvester DAILY EXPRESS)

Book Description:

A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.

About this edition

• Publisher: W andN
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780225644
• ISBN 13: 9781780225647
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1024