From the Publisher
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as
one of the world''s premier historians of WWII. His multi-award
winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of
Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he
turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of
the twentieth century, the Second World War.
In this searing narrative that takes us from Hitler''s invasion of
Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August
14th, 1945 and the war''s aftermath, Beevor describes
the conflict and its global reach--one that included every major
power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume
history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war
that, more than any other, still commands attention and an
audience.
Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor''s grand and
provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on
this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world
history, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of
the first rank.
About the Author
Antony Beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th Hussars in
Germany. He is the author of Crete-The Battle and the
Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize, Paris After the
Liberation, 1944-1949 (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 Trustees'' Award, The Mystery of Olga
Chekhova and, most recently, the bestseller, D-Day.
He lives in London.
About the Book
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture of World War II in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific without losing sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians.
Format: Hardcover
Published: June 5, 2012
Publisher: Little, Brown And Company
Language: English
The following ISBNs are associated with this title:
ISBN - 10: 0316023744
ISBN - 13: 9780316023740
