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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.
Recenzja
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
Published On: 2012-01-11
Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history
-- David Edgar
GUARDIAN
Published On: 2012-01-11
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
Published On: 2012-06-03
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
Published On: 2012-05-27
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
Published On: 2012-06-01
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
Published On: 2012-06-02
Beevor's book is a pleasure to read and an example of intelligent, lively historical writing at its best
-- Tony Barber
FINANCIAL TIMES
Published On: 2012-06-03
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
Published On: 2012-06-11
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
Published On: 2012-06-15
Beevor is excellent at catching the individual in the flood-tide of events
-- John Lewis-Stempel
SUNDAY EXPRESS
Published On: 2012-06-10
The book could not really have been done better
MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY
If you want to understand the war as military struggle, this book is all you really need. However well you thought you knew the subject, you will learn something new on every page. -- Neill Denny
WE LOVE THIS BOOK online
A truly outstanding historian of war -- Michael Howard
STANDPOINT
Everyone who is interested in the Second World War should read this book. -- Laurence Rees
WW2HISTORY.COM
Published On: 2012-06-04The book that Beevor has been building towards writing - and everybody else has been anticipating reading. -- Donal O'Donoghue
RTE GUIDE
Published On: 2012-06-02remarkably well-written and informative -- Norman Stone
LITERARY REVIEW
Published On: 2012-06-01This is the place to begin if you need to get your knowledge of the war in order. -- Hew Strachan
EVENING STANDARD
Published On: 2012-06-07This is history writ large. -- James Owen
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH magazine
Published On: 2012-06-10the whole story told in the author's usual erudite yet highly readable prose
DESPATCHES Magazine
Published On: 2012-06-18The heart of Beevor's appeal is precisely that straightforward narrative approach, coupled with his lively, engaging style and his use of memorable, almost cinematic, set-pieces.
HISTORY TODAY
Published On: 2012-06-26He is the most humanitarian of historians, and covers huge sweeps of history through the real stories of the individuals who experienced them. Reading this will be like having him walk me through the history of the war like a personal guide. -- Kate MosseThis is a book demanding to be read. -- Christoper Bray
THE OXFORD TIMES
Published On: 2012-07-05a masterly understanding of the conflict's many facets
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY
Published On: 2012-07-15For as harrowing and politically convoluted as the years 1939-1945 were, Beevor writes with such a panache and literary flair, that the reader is almost uncannily charged to keep turning the pages at a rate of ten by ten, twenty by twenty, chapter by chapter - until such point that s/he has stumbled upon the end as if by chance, as if by default. -- David Marx Published On: 2012-07-16By deploying his keen eye for tiny detail and penchant for story telling, and then marrying them both with an acute historical investigation, Antony Beevor has once again written a book that is simply superlative. -- David Marx Published On: 2012-07-16This imposing history can both be read as a whole or dipped into, and never fails to inform.
WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?
This book is a perfect mixture of world history and human experience, unbiased and highly readable.
THE JOURNAL
Published On: 2012-07-14As we have come to expect from this master, he excels at using eye-witness testimony to illustrate how mankind can be capable of both terrible cruelty and astonishing courage. -- Andrew Rawnsley
THE OBSERVER
Published On: 2012-11-25global history at its grandest and best
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH
Published On: 2012-11-24the most incredibly detailed research -- Chris Tarrant
THE SUNDAY EXPRESS MAGAZINE
Published On: 2012-12-02a truly rewarding account of the global conflict. Beevor has a special gift for linking great events with individual testimony -- Amanda Foreman
MAIL ON SUNDAY
In his books on Stalingrad and Berlin, Beevor used evidence from ordinary people to bring home the reality of life at the front as opposed to the traditional HQ view... He crams in so much and does it so well because he can.
GOOD BOOK GUIDE
Published On: 2013-10-01
Opis z obwoluty
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.
Opis z tylnej okładki książki
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.
O autorze
Antony Beevor
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