Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944: The Sunday Times No 1 Bestseller
Autor Antony Beevoren Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 apr 2019
The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classicStalingrad
'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War . . . his fans will love it' - Robert Fox,Evening Standard
'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
On 17 September 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the growing roar of aeroplane engines. He went out on to his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders carrying the British 1st Airborne and the American 101st and 82nd Airborne divisions. He gazed up in envy at this massive demonstration of paratroop power.
Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept: the Americans thought it unusually bold for Field Marshal Montgomery. But could it ever have worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch, who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war.
The British fascination with heroic failure has clouded the story of Arnhem in myths. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, British, American, Polish and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student himself called 'The Last German Victory'. Yet this book, written in Beevor's inimitable and gripping narrative style, is about much more than a single, dramatic battle.
It looks into the very heart of war.
'In Beevor's hands,Arnhembecomes a study of national character' - Ben Macintyre,The Times
'Superb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written' - Saul David,Daily Telegraph
'Complete mastery of both the story and the sources' - Keith Lowe,Literary Review
'Another masterwork from the most feted military historian of our time' - Jay Elwes,Prospect Magazine
'The analysis he has produced of the disaster is forensic' - Giles Milton,Sunday Times
'He is a master of his craft . . . we have here a definitive account' - Piers Paul Read,The Tablet
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780670918676
ISBN-10: 0670918679
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0670918679
Pagini: 480
Dimensiuni: 129 x 198 x 30 mm
Greutate: 0.38 kg
Editura: Penguin Books
Colecția Penguin
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Notă biografică
Antony
Beevoris
the
author
ofCrete,
Stalingrad,Berlin,The
Battle
for
Spain,D-Day,The
Second
World
War,andArdennes
1944.The
number
one
bestselling
historian
in
Britain,
Beevor's
books
have
appeared
in
thirty-two
languages
and
have
sold
just
over
seven
million
copies.
He
was
knighted
in
2017.
Recenzii
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
Thisabsorbing new account of the battlewith 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
As Antony Beevor showed inStalingrad,he is a master of his craftas a military historian. . . We have here adefinitive accountof one of the most painful episodes of the Second World War.
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 anothersuperb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written, that will long be the benchmark for this subject.
Beevor's superlative new book . . .Arnhemsees him return to Stalingrad form. Forensic is too soft a word to describe the breadth of detail he brings.
The compressed time scale and limited strategic scope of Market Garden ideally suit the author'stestimony-richapproach . . . Beevor is ahighly accomplishedarchitect of what the American literary scholar Samuel Hynes calls 'battlefield gothic': the nightmarish horrors and absurdities of combat
On holiday I read and am wholly absorbed by Antony Beevor'sArnhem. 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
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
Arnhembrings 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
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
Arnhem was one of the most epic engagements of WW2 and Antony Beevor gives it his usualexcellent and fascinatingbig battle treatment, which makes fora gripping read
Thisabsorbing new account of the battlewith 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
As Antony Beevor showed inStalingrad,he is a master of his craftas a military historian. . . We have here adefinitive accountof one of the most painful episodes of the Second World War.
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 anothersuperb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written, that will long be the benchmark for this subject.
Beevor's superlative new book . . .Arnhemsees him return to Stalingrad form. Forensic is too soft a word to describe the breadth of detail he brings.
The compressed time scale and limited strategic scope of Market Garden ideally suit the author'stestimony-richapproach . . . Beevor is ahighly accomplishedarchitect of what the American literary scholar Samuel Hynes calls 'battlefield gothic': the nightmarish horrors and absurdities of combat
On holiday I read and am wholly absorbed by Antony Beevor'sArnhem. 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
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
Arnhembrings 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
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
Arnhem was one of the most epic engagements of WW2 and Antony Beevor gives it his usualexcellent and fascinatingbig battle treatment, which makes fora gripping read