D-Day: The Battle for Normandy

“A quite outstanding book. . . a truly outstanding historian of war” Professor Sir Michael Howard in Standpoint
“Dramatic, exciting, well-paced and lucid” Christopher Silvester in the Daily Express
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Synopsis

Antony Beevor’s D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war – the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear.

The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.

‘Antony Beevor’s gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there. . . It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement’ Giles Foden, Guardian

‘No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail’ Christopher Silvester, Daily Express

Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees’ Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.

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“Dramatic, exciting, well-paced and lucid. . . there is no writer who can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail” Christopher Silvester in the Daily Express
“In this brilliantly co-ordinated and almost overwhelmingly upsetting history of D-Day and its aftermath, Antony Beevor . . . homes in on such details with the heightened senses of a great novelist. . . Beevor never allows the deadly truth of war to be obscured by the foggy language of academia: this is history that is felt, war as it was experienced by real people, by our fathers and grandfathers.” Craig Brown in the Mail on Sunday
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Publishers
United Kingdom Penguin
US Viking Penguin
France Calmann-Levy
Netherlands Ambo Anthos
Denmark Lindhardt & Ringhof
Finland Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio WSOY
Sweden Historiska Media
Norway Cappelen Damm
Iceland Bokautgafan Holar
Estonia Tanapaev
Poland Znak
Italy RCS Libri
Spain Critica
Portugal Bertrand Editora
Germany Bertelsmann
Brazil Record
Japan Hakusui-sha
Israel Yavneh
China Changjiang Literature and Art
South Korea Geulhangari Publishers
Greece Govostis
Croatia Profil
Czech Republic Beta-Dobrovsky & Sevcik