Antony Beevor

Gebundenes Buch

The Second World War

Beschreibung

Antony Beevor has been credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history with his multi-award-winning books STALINGRAD and BERLIN - THE DOWNFALL. Combining the insight of a great novelist, a masterly ability to synthesise complicated material and an eye for the telling human detail, a history of the Second World War is the book Beevor was born to write.
The focus of the book will be the war itself - the cruellest and most destructive conflict the world has ever known. Beginning in the first chapter with Hitler's attack on Poland on 1 September 1939, and going on to explore the war on all fronts - on land, at sea and in the air, at home and across the globe. Beevor will bring his narrative skills to bear on the military and political complexities of the war as well as drawing out the multitude of human stories that lie at its core. THE SECOND WORLD WAR will become the definitive work on this vast, complex, tragic and endlessly fascinating subject.

Autor

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, and The Mystery of Olga Chekhova. Stalingrad and Berlin have been translated into twenty-five languages and sold more than two and a quarter million copies between them. His latest work, A Writer at War - Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945, is an edition, with his Russian researcher, Dr Luba Vinogradova, of Grossman's wartime notebooks. A fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in France, Antony Beevor has also been the chairman of the Society of Authors and is a visiting professor at the School of History, Classics and Archaeology at Birkbeck College, University of London. He lives in London and Kent and has a daughter and a son.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Group / W&N
• Seitenzahl: 880
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Mai 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• Gewicht: 1470g
• ISBN-13: 9780297844976
• ISBN-10: 0297844970
• Artikelnr.: 34190302

Rezensionen

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 THE INDEPENDENT 20120111