The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian.
Antony Beevor is the author of Crete- The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), Stalingrad (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), Berlin- The Downfall, The Battle for Spain (Premio La Vanguardia), D-Day- The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), The Second World War, and Ardennes 1944 (shortlist Prix Medicis). The Number One bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-two languages and have sold just over seven million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.
Masterly...illuminated by a host of hitherto unpublished anecdotes
and quotations, together with the fruits of his own labors in Dutch
archives. A meticulous, wonderfully vivid, and justly angry account
of one of the great cock-ups of World War II
*Max Hastings*
This absorbing new account of the battle with the eye for telling
detail which we have come to expect from Antony Beevor. . . this
time, though, he turns his brilliance as a military historian to a
subject not just of defeat, but dunderhead stupidity.
*Daily Mail*
Beevor tells a story that is more human and complex than what he
calls "the great myth of heroic failure", a tale of vanity, hubris,
occasional incompetence, human frailty and remarkable grit. . . In
Beevor's hands, Arnhem becomes a study of national character.
*The Times*
Antony Beevor's magnificent account. . . Beevor's skill lies in his
ability to recreate the tumultuous brutality of battle. . . With
stark honesty, Beevor describes the terrible panoply.
*The Times*
The analysis he has produced of the disaster is forensic.
Aficionados of military history will revel in Beevor's microscopic
detail, with every skirmish given its rightful place. . . Beevor's
prodigious research has nevertheless unearthed many treasures,
particularly his record of the sufferings of Dutch civilians who
risked their necks by nursing wounded allied soldiers.
*Sunday Times*
Complete mastery of both the story and the sources. The beauty is
in the details. . . . This gripping book, with its tightly focused
timescale and subject matter, shows him once again at his very
best.
*Literary Review*
Another masterwork from the most feted military historian of our
time. . . Does the story need to be retold? Beevor is such a good
writer, with a gift for clarity and a knack for the telling
personal portrait, that the answer is undoubtedly yes.
*Prospect Magazine*
Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . The drama of
manoeuvre and counter-thrust, the courage and cowardice of soldier
and civilian, the follies and vanities of commanders, which are
especially rich in this story, are deployed with colour and
humanity. His fans will love it.
*Evening Standard*
As Antony Beevor showed in Stalingrad, he is a master of his craft
as a military historian. . . We have here a definitive account of
one of the most painful episodes of the Second World War.
*The Tablet*
It is, in short, a chapter of the Second World War that was crying
out for the storytelling talents of Sir Antony Beevor, arguably the
finest narrative historian of his generation. This is the result -
and his many fans will not be disappointed . . . Beevor's
particular skill is his ability to unearth new sources that
articulate the experience of war felt by ordinary people: soldiers
and civilians, men and women. . . Beevor has produced another
superb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written, that
will long be the benchmark for this subject.
*Daily Telegraph*
Beevor's superlative new book . . . Arnhem sees him return to
Stalingrad form. Forensic is too soft a word to describe the
breadth of detail he brings.
*Daily Express, ******
The compressed time scale and limited strategic scope of Market
Garden ideally suit the author's testimony-rich approach . . .
Beevor is a highly accomplished architect of what the American
literary scholar Samuel Hynes calls 'battlefield gothic': the
nightmarish horrors and absurdities of combat
*Wall Street Journal*
On holiday I read and am wholly absorbed by Antony Beevor's Arnhem.
Though I am defeated by much of the military detail, the human side
of the action, the troops in the gliders, their fears and all too
often their fates, are beautifully told, with some of the bloodshed
and killing unbearable
*Diary 2018*
This is destined to be a World War II military history classic . .
. Beevor's superb latest offering, in keeping with his established
record of excellence, is a must-read
*Publishers' Weekly*
Arnhem brings a wealth of new detail to a major World War II
disaster . . . Beevor brings to the familiar story a vast amount of
research in German, British, American, Polish, and Dutch archives.
As usual, his narrative bristles with specifics, including
countless observations gleaned from eyewitnesses to every stage of
Market Garden. Devoted readers of military history will enjoy the
wealth of details
*The Christian Science Monitor*
With devastating command of his subject, Antony Beevor shows how
one commander's hubris destroyed an army . . . No one beats Beevor
at recreating the bewildering cacophony of war
*The Times, History Book of the Year*
Arnhem was one of the most epic engagements of WW2 and Antony
Beevor gives it his usual excellent and fascinating big battle
treatment, which makes for a gripping read
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