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Beevor talks about the origins of the conflict spanning from. Using the most uptodate scholarship and research, and writing with clarity and compassion, beevor assembles the whole picture of the second world war in a gripping narrative that extends from the north atlantic to the south pacific, from the snowbound steppe to the north african desert, to the bur. The book begins with an introduction where the author tells the story of a korean soldier, yang kyung yong, who was forcefully conscripted into kwantung army and then taken as a prisoner by soldiers of. Over the past two decades, antony beevor has established himself as one of the worlds premier historians of world war ii. Buy the second world war old edition book online at low prices. Antony beevor served as a regular officer in the 11th hussars in germany. Fall of berlin, is a historical non fiction work by anthony beevor describing events of jan 1945 june 1945 as nazi germany and soviet red army fight out the battle of berlin. The result is a handsome, yet rather daunting doorstop of a book. The second world war by antony beevor is a comprehensive and masterfully written chronicle of the events leading up to and beyond world war 2. Buy the second world war first edition by beevor, antony isbn. Beevor has written an engrossing account of the war from the standpoint of the common civilian and serviceman. Praise for the second world war beevors book is the definitive history. 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.
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Weighing in at 880 pages it provides a comprehensive, well considered and well written account of a truly momentous set of events in world history. 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. Download or stream the second world war by antony beevor. Antony beevors general history of the second world war is a momentous achievement. Younger historians have much to be grateful to him for, but new ways will have to be found of telling these. In this searing narrative, which takes us from hitlers invasion of poland on september 1st, 1939 to vj day on august 14th, 1945, and the wars aftermath, beevor describes the conflict and its global reach one that included every major power. Also probably the only overview that doesnt exclude or give short shrift to the china burma campaign. He is the author of cretethe battle and the resistance, which won a runciman prize, paris after the liberation, 19441949 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 second world war is an honourable attempt to fashion the legacy that beevor merits.
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