Antony Beevor D-Day Paperback Book Antony Beevor Multicolor

THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times______________This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fearThe Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known.The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war.As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides.Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering.Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side. Antony Beevor's inimitably gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.He lands the reader on the beach alongside the heroes whose stories he so masterfully renders in their full terrifying glory. ______________'A thrilling story, with all Beevor's narrative mastery' Chris Patten, Financial Times'Beevor's