'Beevor's D-Day has all the qualities that have made his earlier works so successful: an eye for telling and unusual detail, an ability to make complex events understandable, and a wonderful graphic style' Ian Kershaw, Guardian, Books of the Year 'A thrilling story, with all Beevor's narrative mastery' Chris Patten, Financial Times 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times He lands the reader on the beach alongside the heroes whose stories he so masterfully renders in their full terrifying glory. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.Īntony Beevor's inimitably gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering.

As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war. The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear Reissued with a new foreword for the 75th Anniversary 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. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome.

D-Day by Antony Beevor