D-Day
The Battle for Normandy
- Published: 6 July 2017
- ISBN: 9780241982488
- Imprint: Penguin Audio
- Format: Audio Download
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 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
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