Name: D-Day
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Author: Antony Beevor

Type

Physical Book

Author

Antony Beevor

Publisher

Penguin

Year

2010

Language

English

Pages

624

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.3x14x3.4 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN

0143118188

ISBN13

9780143118183

Edition No.

Synopsis "D-Day "

"Glorious, horrifying... D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women."--Time Renowned historian Antony Beevor, author of Stalingrad and The Battle of Arnhem, and the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than twenty years of the Normandy invasion and the liberation of Paris. This is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting. Beevor draws upon his research in more than thirty archives in six countries, going back to original accounts and interviews conducted by combat historians just after the action. D-Day is the consummate account of the invasion and the ferocious offensive that led to Paris's liberation.

Antony Beevor

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Educated at Winchester and Sandhurst, he was a regular officer in the British army, which he left after five years of service and moved to Paris, where he wrote his first novel

His essays, translated into more than thirty languages and published in Spanish by Crítica, have been awarded several prizes, especially Stalingrad (2000), recipient of the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson History Prize, and the Hawthornden Prize, and Berlin: The Downfall, 1945 (2002), which has seen a dozen editions in Spanish

Other works include The Battle of Crete (2002), winner of the Runciman Prize, Paris After the Liberation (1944-1949) (2003), The Mystery of Olga Chekhova (2004), The Spanish Civil War (2005), A Writer at War: Vassily Grossman in the Russian Army, 1944-1945 (2006), and D-Day: The Battle of Normandy (2009)

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