The Second World War By Antony Beevor

His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative history, whose giants include Gibbon, Macaulay and Carlyle
INDEPENDENT – Boyd Tonkin

Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history
GUARDIAN – David Edgar

The myriad pieces of this intricate kaleidoscope are pieced together with exemplary skill … This is a splendid book, erudite, with an admirable clarity of thought and expression
INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY – Roger Moorhouse

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 – Dominic Sandbrook

You feel yourself being carried along on the narrative flow, channelled this way and that through the pools and rapids by Beevor's expert helmanship
STANDPOINT – Patrick Bishop

Brocaded with details of the great campaigns and thoughtful explanations of Hitler's murderous belligerence, The Second World War is an absorbing, unsparingly lucid work of military history
THE SPECTATOR – Ian Thomson

Beevor's book is a pleasure to read and an example of intelligent, lively historical writing at its best
FINANCIAL TIMES – Tony Barber

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 – John Gray

A British historian of great distinction and range, who … demonstrates his mastery of his sources
NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS – Gordon Craig

A magnificent performance – true excitement from one page to the next delivered in faultless prose
DAILY EXPRESS – Christoper Silvester

Beevor is excellent at catching the individual in the flood-tide of events
SUNDAY EXPRESS – John Lewis-Stempel

The book could not really have been done better
MILITARY HISTORY MONTHLY

If you want to understand the war as military struggle, this book is all you really need. However well you thought you knew the subject, you will learn something new on every page.
WE LOVE THIS BOOK online – Neill Denny

A truly outstanding historian of war
STANDPOINT – Michael Howard

Everyone who is interested in the Second World War should read this book.
WW2HISTORY.COM – Laurence Rees

The book that Beevor has been building towards writing – and everybody else has been anticipating reading.
RTE GUIDE – Donal O’Donoghue

remarkably well-written and informative
LITERARY REVIEW – Norman Stone

This is the place to begin if you need to get your knowledge of the war in order.
EVENING STANDARD – Hew Strachan

This is history writ large.
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH magazine – James Owen

the whole story told in the author's usual erudite yet highly readable prose
DESPATCHES Magazine

The heart of Beevor's appeal is precisely that straightforward narrative approach, coupled with his lively, engaging style and his use of memorable, almost cinematic, set-pieces.
HISTORY TODAY

He is the most humanitarian of historians, and covers huge sweeps of history through the real stories of the individuals who experienced them. Reading this will be like having him walk me through the history of the war like a personal guide.
Kate Mosse

This is a book demanding to be read.
THE OXFORD TIMES – Christoper Bray

a masterly understanding of the conflict's many facets
THE MAIL ON SUNDAY

For as harrowing and politically convoluted as the years 1939-1945 were, Beevor writes with such a panache and literary flair, that the reader is almost uncannily charged to keep turning the pages at a rate of ten by ten, twenty by twenty, chapter by chapter – until such point that s/he has stumbled upon the end as if by chance, as if by default.
David Marx