He was educated at winchester college and sandhurst and studied under the wellknown world war two historian, john keegan. Anthony beevor speaking at the cambridge union society. The result is a handsome, yet rather daunting doorstop of a book. From antony beevor, the internationally bestselling author of dday and the battle of arnhem. Antony beevor is authoritative and lucid in much of this mammoth history, but the size of the task sometimes proves too. 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.
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The battle for normandy, which received the royal united services institute westminster medal. Reading antony beevors latest second world war epic, one can understand why. Beevor has written an engrossing account of the war from the standpoint of the common civilian and serviceman. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one.
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