Antony Beevor
Birth date: December 14, 1946
Antony Beevor's Books
On December 16, 1944, sixteen German divisions launched an offensive against American forces in the thinly-held Ardennes Forest region of the Western Front. The brainchild of Adolf Hitler, its goal was to disrupt the Allied campaign in the west by seizing the recently-cleared port of Antwerp, which ...
Operation Market Garden ranks among the worst military blunders of the Second World War. The brainchild of British general Bernard Montgomery, it was a plan to open an invasion route into northern Germany through the Netherlands by sending in paratroopers to seize key bridges, then speeding armored ...
To say that there is no shortage of histories of the Allied invasion of Normandy in June 1944 is something of an understatement, as between the memoirs, the unit histories, and the general accounts of the assault D-Day ranks as among the most chronicled events of the Second World War. Over the years...
Though the Second World War was decided in battles waged over several years and in multiple regions, the most important front of the war was the one in eastern Europe. There the German war machine which had conquered so much of Europe with seemingly little effort was ground down in an extended clash...
bookshelves: summer-2015, wwii, published-1998, nonfiction, nazi-related, history, military-manoeuvres, berlin, betrayal, bullies, casual-violence, censorship, decline-disintergration-degradation, epic-proportions, execution, foxtrotted-uniform, fraudio, gangsters, lifestyles-deathstyles, lit-riche...
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