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20th century, Prose: non-fiction, General & world history, History: earliest times to present day, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Military history, Second World War
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- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781399629713 | RRP $29.99 Pre-Order
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- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781399629713 | RRP $29.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback Sep 30, 2014 | 9781780225647 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 17, 2015 | 9781409165019 | RRP $55.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 7, 2012 | 9780297860709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781399629713 | RRP $29.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback Sep 30, 2014 | 9781780225647 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 17, 2015 | 9781409165019 | RRP $55.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 7, 2012 | 9780297860709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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W&N
- Paperback Jul 29, 2025 | 9781399629713 | RRP $29.99 Pre-Order
- Paperback Sep 30, 2014 | 9781780225647 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Audiobook Sep 17, 2015 | 9781409165019 | RRP $55.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Jun 7, 2012 | 9780297860709 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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V.E. Day 80th anniversary edition, updated with a new foreword - 'Simply the ultimate Second World War history'- DAILY TELEGRAPH
'Simply the ultimate Second World War history'- SIMON SEBAG MONTEFIORE, DAILY TELEGRAPH
A CONFLICT LIKE NO OTHER, it has come to define the very idea of war itself. Great power rivalry prepared the ground, yet so did bitter ethnic disputes following the collapse of four empires, as did the ideological clash between Fascism and Communism. More than any other, the Second World War was dominated, in the age of totalitarianism, by leaders who determined the course of events in a way we have not seen since then - and thought we would never see again.
Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Antony Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Despite the titanic scale of his canvas, he never loses sight of the fates of the ordinary men and women whose lives were scattered by inexorable forces.
Revised and with a new foreword to commemorate the 80th anniversary of VE Day, this is the unrivalled single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known, by our foremost historian of war.
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Praise for The Second World War
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Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history - GUARDIAN
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His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative history - INDEPENDENT
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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 - NEW STATESMAN
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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 - SUNDAY TIMES
Antony Beevor
ANTONY BEEVOR is the author of 13 works of nonfiction, including Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (1991), which was awarded a Runciman Prize; Stalingrad (1998), which won the first Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; and D-Day: The Battle for Normandy (2009), which received the Prix Henry Malherbe in France and the Westminster Medal from the Royal United Services Institute, and was a No 1 Bestseller in seven countries. His most recent work is the 2023 Sunday Times bestseller Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921. Educated at Sandhurst, Beevor served as regular officer with the 11th Hussars, leaving the Army after five years to write.
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