The Second World War

as we are likely to get, and the most humanly moving to date. -- John Gray NEW STATESMAN 20120611 The book that Beevor has been building towards writing - and everybody else has been anticipating reading. -- Donal O'Donoghue RTE GUIDE 20120602 remarkably well-written and informative -- Norman Stone LITERARY REVIEW 20120601 This is the place to begin if you need to get your knowledge of the war in order. -- Hew Strachan EVENING STANDARD 20120607 This is history writ large. -- James Owen THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH SEVEN Magazine 20120610 Beevor is excellent at catching the individual in the flood-tide of events. -- John Lewis-Stempel SUNDAY EXPRESS 20120610 The book could not really have been done better. MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY A magnificent performance - true excitement from one page to the next delivered in faultless prose. -- Christopher Silvester DAILY EXPRESS 20120615 the whole story told in the author's usual erudite yet highly readable prose DESPATCHES Magazine The heart of Beevor's appeal is precisely that straightforward narrative approach, coupled with his lively, engaging style and his use of memorable, almost cinematic, set-pieces. HISTORY TODAY 20120626 He is the most humanitarian of historians, and covers huge sweeps of history through the real stories of the individuals who experienced them. Reading this will be like having him walk me through the history of the war like a personal guide. -- Kate Mosse This is a book demanding to be read. -- Christopher Bray THE OXFORD TIMES 20120705 a masterly understanding of the conflict's many facets THE MAIL ON SUNDAY 20120715 For as harrowing and politically convoluted as the years 1939-1945 were, Beevor writes with such a panache and literary flair, that the reader is almost uncannily charged to keep turning the pages at a rate of ten by ten, twenty by twenty, chapter by chapter - until such point that s/he has stumbled upon the end as if by chance, as if by default. -- David Marx 20120716 By deploying his keen eye for tiny detail and penchant for story telling, and then marrying them both with an acute historical investigation, Antony Beevor has once again written a book that is simply superlative. -- David Marx 20120716 This imposing history can both be read as a whole or dipped into, and never fails to inform. WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE? This book is a perfect mixture of world history and human experience, unbiased and highly readable. THE JOURNAL 20120714 As we have come to expect from this master, he excels at using eye-witness testimony to illustrate how mankind can be capable of both terrible cruelty and astonishing courage. -- Andrew Rawnsley THE OBSERVER 20121125 global history at its grandest and best THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 20121124 the most incredibly detailed research -- Chris Tarrant THE SUNDAY EXPRESS S MAGAZINE 20121202 a truly rewarding account of the global conflict. Beevor has a special gift for linking great events with individual testimony -- Amanda Foreman MAIL ON SUNDAY