The Second World War

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Review ------ 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 history (David Edgar GUARDIAN) The myriad pieces of this intricate kaleido 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 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) Book Description ---------------- A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost historian.