D-Day
The Battle for Normandy
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Narrated by:
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Cameron Stewart
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By:
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Antony Beevor
About this listen
Brought to you by Penguin.
Antony Beevor's D-Day: The Battle for Normandy is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear.
The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.
Antony Beevor is the renowned author of Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature, and Berlin, which received the first Longman-History Today Trustees' Award. His books have sold nearly four million copies.
'Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.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
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- Anonymous User
- 09-08-2020
Great read
Great read learnt a lot. listened to it twice now i enjoyed it so much.
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- Rowey555
- 12-05-2024
Beevor is a master historian.
For anyone interested in anything WW2, in particular the war in the west, then this book is a must. Beevor is a meticulous researcher and fantastic story teller, this book does the troops the credit they deserve.
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Overall5 out of 5 stars
- Mr. A. M. O'donnell
- 07-09-2019
Well worth the investment.
I have read a few histories of the Normandy campaign and I have to say that this is the best of the bunch. Devoid of national bias it gives a "Warts and all"account of the fighting and the commanders involved. Interesting and informative in equal measure.
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- James Pizzey
- 08-09-2019
Fantastic subject matter
But appalling accents.
I love the author and the narrator has a great voice, but the accents?
Why?
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- J
- 13-06-2023
AAA Throughout
Very detailed, informative and humanising. Very authoritatively performed. I had the barest knowledge of the events in France’s liberation before, and I feel like I understand much more (than I did) now.
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- James in NZ
- 18-07-2018
Listened to this while going to sleep
Book goes from big picture to trivia quickly.
Not the most interesting. Lots of French geography that is hard to follow. I
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- DVault
- 15-12-2024
Infuriating performance
Good history, but the reader keeps putting on ridiculous accents for different people. Problem is, his performance just come across as bad stereotypes. Rendered Beevor's excellent work quite insufferable to experience, which is a damn shame
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