Advantages: More than just a history of D-Day Disadvantages: None
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 an another review of the ...
clb-profis 24.07.2009
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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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