This book should be required reading for presidents and prime-ministers, generals and school children the world around. Beevor has managed not only to provide a detailed factual history of the D-Day landings but also to capture the mood and spirit of the times. This is the way that history ... Read review
His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience ... more
recalls the golden age of British narrative history whose giants include Gibbon Macaulay and Carlyle' - Boyd Tonkin "Independent". 'Beevor can be credited with sing...
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D-Day : The Battle for Normandy tells the story of the Normandy landings that took place ... more
on D-Day, involving by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front.
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This book should be required reading for presidents and prime-ministers, generals and school children the world around. Beevor has managed not only to provide a detailed factual history of the D-Day landings but also to capture the mood and spirit of the times. This is the way that history should be written. He gives a clear analysis of the competence and incompetence of the senior officers involved on both sides and the warning that he provides ... ...a dictator, having been subjected to years of propoganda might well have been an important piece of psychology that could have assisted Messrs Cheney and Bush in their thinking.
The book is crammed with information, not just about troop movements, the importance of the weather and luck, but also the personal histories of the lives and deaths of the soldiers involved.
One knows how the story turns out, but this is not just ... more
This book should be required reading for presidents and prime-ministers, generals and school children the world around. Beevor has managed not only to provide a detailed factual history of the D-Day landings but also to capture the mood and spirit of the times. This is the way that history should be written. He gives a clear analysis of the competence and incompetence of the senior officers involved on both sides and the warning that he provides of the difference between conscript soldiers and those fighting for a dictator, having been subjected to years of propoganda might well have been an important piece of psychology that could have assisted Messrs Cheney and Bush in their thinking.
The book is crammed with information, not just about troop movements, the importance of the weather and luck, but also the personal histories of the lives and deaths of the soldiers involved.
One knows how the story turns out, but this is not just an another review of the D-Day landings, a film where the ending is known, this is the first objective and possibly the best analysis of the landings that I have read, with all sides of the case presented where possible (Allied German, French (where different from the Allied) and Russian. In particular the author gives an in depth view of the suffering caused to the people of Normandy by their eventual liberators ( again an important lesson for the warmongers of today).
Indeed it goes in its sweep beyond the art of war, the commentaries made concerning the British and American armies and how they behaved, the competence and incompetence of the officers involved, seem as pertinent today as hen. It is more than a history, in the end it is a social commentary concerning the behaviour of man in his darkest hour and a mark of deep respect for the honour of those, all of those, who fought.
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Product details
EAN
9780670887033
Type
Non-Fiction
Genre
History
Title
D-Day: The Battle for Normandy
Author
Antony Beevor
Release Date
06-02-13
ISBN
067088703X
Manufacturer's product description
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. The war in northern France marked not just a generation but the whole of the post-war world, profoundly influencing relations between America and Europe. Making use of overlooked and new material from over thirty archives in half a dozen countries, D-Day is the most vivid and well-researched account yet of the battle of Normandy. As with Stalingrad and Berlin, Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war. About the AuthorAntony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.
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