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Publication date 2012 topics world war, 19391945 publisher little, brown and co. A book aimed at an international audience may leave british readers feeling shortchanged. His multiaward winning books have included stalingrad and the fall of berlin 1945. Sep 09, 2012 toward the end of this powerful narrative of world war ii, antony beevor quotes a report, by the australian war correspondent godfrey blunden, of an encounter with some american troops who had. Known for his vivid narrative accounts of twentiethcentury military conflicts, his primary interest is in revisiting and reevaluating the second world war.
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Jan 31, 2014 anthony beevor speaking at the cambridge union society. Beevor talks about the origins of the conflict spanning from. The second world war by antony beevor washington post. In this searing narrative that takes us from hitlers invasion of poland on september 1st, 1939 to vj day on august 14, 1945 and the wars aftermath, beevor describes the conflict and its.
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Daily express antony beevor deploys all the qualities in this book that have made him our preeminent historian of the second world war. Beevors second world war is sure to reach a wide and appreciative audience and deservedly so. Our guest is military historian and author antony beevor. A fresh and acclaimed account of the spanish civil war by the bestselling author of stalingrad and the fall of berlin 1945 to mark the 70th anniversary of the spanish civil wars outbreak, antony beevor has written a completely updated and revised account of one of the most bitter and hardfought wars of the twentieth century. Yet this book, written in beevors inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single dramatic battle. Beevor was born a year after the end of the second world war. Jun 05, 2012 a masterful and comprehensive chronicle of world war ii, by internationally bestselling historian antony beevor. Beevor is a former officer with the 11th hussars who served in england and germany for five years before resigning his commission.
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