The Second World War
- Author Antony Beevor
- Narrator Sean Barrett
- Publisher Orion
- Run Time 1 day, 15 hours and 17 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre General and world history, Modern warfare, Second World War.
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What to expect
The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert.
Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.
Read by Sean Barrett
(p) 2012 Orion Publishing Group
Critics Review
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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
INDEPENDENT -
Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history
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
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
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
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
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