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An excellent book,in the Bevoir style,The historical knowledge & facts & his writing style makes this another book not to miss.( my husbands review)Birthday present!

Awesome but awful. This meticulously researched and detailed account of the D-Day campaign should be required reading for all secondary school history students. It is not an easy read nor is it a pleasant read. But it is a stark reminder of the hell to which tens of thousands of our young soldiers, sailors and airmen and their US and Commonwealth allies were subjected. Beevor covers the lot - the successes, the failures, the politics and the personalities and with extremely helpful maps to keep the reader in the picture. Excellent in every respect.

Better qualified reviewers than I have already pointed out the factual errors and failures of interpretation in this book. There is nothing on the plans for D Day, no analysis, no structure, and it merely hops from one anecdote to another. This is social history not military history. In contrast to other reviewers I found Stalingrad and Berlin just as boring and for the same reasons. Only in the Spanish Civil War, where there were no interviews and few memoirs to quote from was Beevor forced to write proper history. Like all military history books published these days in the UK there is a total reliance on 'oral', and the author, usually a semi-literate journalist, merely provides the banal, unedited, linking narrative. This is military history for those with a short attention span or who don't often read military history. The Normandy novice would have no better idea of the battle at the end of this book than at the beginning. Look out for Beevor's next WWII blockbuster - doubtless Dunkirk, Arnhem or El Alamein- but get it out of the library. Or maybe just don't bother. This was not worth the reservation fee.

Excellent book, a very detailed and informative account. You can really only appreciate the book if you have personally visited the battlefields of IInd world War in that area. I would strongly recommend a conducted, guided coach tour.My wife and I did that some 6 years ago and the whole picture became clear to us. what a sacrifice people had put in for our freedom. We need to be forever grateful to them. The book captures these areas very neatly.

Dr Raj Kathane

The benchmark of Anthony Beevor books is "Stalingrad" (IMHO). If I'd give Stalingrad 5 stars then I can only give this one 4, but it is still a very good book.

It has been researched excellenty. It gives a balanced view of the roles of the various characters and events relating to both sides of the conflict. It is well illustrated and well paced. The detail is about right and content is an improvement on "Berlin", which I felt got a bit bogged down in talking too much about the various army manouvres.

It goes a long way to address the atrocities commited by both the sides involved and the suffering of the indigenous population. Many other books and documentaries fail to point out well enough that the Allies weren't always the nice guys. The French role in the War is also underplayed by history and there is plenty devoted to both the French army and the Nazi collaborators or sympathisers. The political aspects are introduced at appropriate moments to compliment the battlefield progression

I like this book, anjoyed it and it is a good point to say I got through it quickly. (as opposed to dragging it on over months as I often do when I have a big hefty tome to read).

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