The Second World War - Couverture souple

Beevor, Antony

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1780225644 ISBN 13 : 9781780225647

Editeur : W&N, 2014

Synopsis

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A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

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)

Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history (David Edgar GUARDIAN)

The myriad pieces of this intricate kaleidoscope are pieced together with exemplary skill ... This is a splendid book, erudite, with an admirable clarity of thought and expression (Roger Moorhouse INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY)

His accounts of the key moments in the Second World War have a sense of colour, drama and immediacy that few narrative historians can match (Dominic Sandbrook SUNDAY TIMES)

You feel yourself being carried along on the narrative flow, channelled this way and that through the pools and rapids by Beevor's expert helmanship (Patrick Bishop STANDPOINT)

Brocaded with details of the great campaigns and thoughtful explanations of Hitler's murderous belligerence, The Second World War is an absorbing, unsparingly lucid work of military history (Ian Thomson THE SPECTATOR)

Beevor's book is a pleasure to read and an example of intelligent, lively historical writing at its best (Tony Barber FINANCIAL TIMES)

This is as comprehensive and objective an account of the course of the war as we are likely to get, and the most humanly moving to date (John Gray NEW STATESMAN)

A British historian of great distinction and range, who ... demonstrates his mastery of his sources (Gordon Craig NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS)

A magnificent performance - true excitement from one page to the next delivered in faultless prose (Christoper Silvester DAILY EXPRESS)

Biographie de l'auteur :

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.

Go to www.antonybeevor.com for more information. Antony Beevor is on Twitter at https://twitter.com/antonybeevor, and on Facebook at www.facebook.com/pages/Antony-Beevor

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: W&N
• Date d'édition: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780225644
• ISBN 13: 9781780225647
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 1024