D-Day
The Battle for Normandy
- Published: 24 May 2012
- ISBN: 9780241962060
- Imprint: Penguin eBooks
- Format: EBook
- Pages: 608
Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history
David Edgar, Guardian
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
Boyd Tonkin, Independent
A knockout reassessment of one of the Second World War's great set-piece battles. Swoops from the vicious close-quarter fighting in the hedgerows to the petrified French onlookers and onwards to the political leaders wrestling with monumental decisions
Sunday Times
Beevor has succeeded brilliantly. D-Day can sit proudly alongside his other masterworks on Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin. Superbly brings the events of that summer to life again
Patrick Bishop, Daily Telegraph
As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there. . . It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement
Giles Foden, Guardian
Impeccable, splendid, thoroughly researched and gripping. Beevor is master of narrative, expertly blending the grand sweep with the telling anecdote
Dominic Sandbrook, Observer
As powerful and authoritative an account of the battle for Normandy as we are likely to get in this generation
Max Hastings, Sunday Times
A brilliantly co-ordinated and almost overwhelmingly upsetting history. Beevor is singularly expert at homing in on those telltale human details that reveal just what it would have been like to be in Normandy in the summer of 1944
Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail
Christopher Silvester, Daily Express