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The Second World War

Antony Beevor

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English
Phoenix
30 September 2014
A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.

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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Imprint:   Phoenix
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 196mm,  Width: 128mm,  Spine: 62mm
Weight:   800g
ISBN:   9781780225647
ISBN 10:   1780225644
Pages:   880
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Author Website:   www.antonybeevor.com

Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in Germany. He is the author of CRETE, which won a RUNCIMAN PRIZE; PARIS AFTER THE LIBERATION (written with his wife, Artemis Cooper); STALINGRAD, which won the SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE, the WOLFSON PRIZE FOR HISTORY and the HAWTHORNDEN PRIZE FOR LITERATURE; BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL, which received the first LONGMAN-HISTORY TODAY AWARD; THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN; and, most recently, D-DAY, which received the RUSI WESTMINSTER MEDAL. His books have appeared in 30 languages and sold 5 million copies. http://www.antonybeevor.com/ http://www.facebook.com/pages/Antony-Beevor https://twitter.com/antonybeevor http://www.youtube.com/antonybeevortest

Reviews for The Second World War

Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history - GUARDIAN His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative history - INDEPENDENT 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 - SUNDAY 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 - NEW STATESMAN


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