Antony Beevor

Broschiertes Buch

The Second World War

Beschreibung

V.E. Day 80th anniversary edition, updated with a new foreword - 'Simply the ultimate Second World War history'- DAILY TELEGRAPH

Autor

Antony Beevor is the author of CRETE: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), STALINGRAD (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), BERLIN: The Downfall, THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN (Premio La Vanguardia), D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), THE SECOND WORLD WAR, ARDENNES 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist) and ARNHEM: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944. Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold more than eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 1040
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 127mm x 65mm
• Gewicht: 808g
• ISBN-13: 9781399629713
• ISBN-10: 1399629719
• Artikelnr.: 72653468

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 INDEPENDENT 20120111