Antony Beevor Libros

La soberbia de Hitler: el retraso de la batalla por Moscú ; La primera batalla del general Paulus ; La ciudad fatídica ; La trampa de Zhukov ; El sometimiento del VI ejército.

Antony Beevor reconstruye en este libro la última gran batalla europea de la segunda guerra mundial y la estremecedora agonía del Tercer Reich. Con rigurosas técnicas documentales semejantes a las empleadas en Stalingrado pero con mayor aliento épico y más densidad política, Beevor combina como nadie un extraordinario talento de militar e historiador con unas dotes narrativas fuera de lo común para describir tanto la complejidad de las grandes operaciones militares y la lógica de las decisiones de sus mandos como los sentimientos de la gente común atrapada en un torbellino de fuego y metralla...

La memoria colectiva que es la historia se nos aparece hoy mucho menos como el mero relato de lo ocurrido en el pasado que como un instrumento de analisis del presente. Al termino de un siglo de expectativas fallidas, y ante un futuro incierto, necesitamos revisar criticamente esta memoria y asentaria sobre nuevas bases de conocimiento. Mas reciente aun que &la" Contrastes, &la" Memoria/Critica se propone publicar estudios sobre los grandes problemas del pasado inmediato y sobre acontecimientos que siguen pesando sobre nuestras vidas. Antony Beevor nos ofrece en este libro el estudio mas documentado y brillante que existe tanto sobre la batalla como sobre la epica resistencia del pueblo de Creta contra el invasor aleman, y lo hace con esa mezcla de talento literario e informacion de primera mano que caracteriza sus grandes best sellers Stalingrado y Berlin y que, como ha escrito Patrick L. Fermor, &la" te hace vivir las acciones militares y el desarrollo del conflicto como si hubieran sucedido la semana anterior.

Esta es la apasionante vida de una mujer del siglo xx, Olga Chejova, que consiguió sobrevivir ala Revoluciónrusa y a la guerra civil para escapar a Berlín huyendo de la miseria y la degradación. Allí se convirtió, con el paso de los años, en una gran estrella de la cinematografía alemana, mimada por el Tercer Reich. Pero tras su título de «Actriz del Estado» concedido por el mismísimo Führer, Olga Chejova escondía un peligroso secreto: el de espía de los servicios de inteligencia soviéticos, dispuesta a participar en un complot para asesinar a Hitler.

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.

Vasily Grossman's masterpiece "Life and Fate" is rated by many as the greatest Russian novel of the twentieth century. Among its admirers is Antony Beevor, the bestselling author of Stalingrad and Berlin. This book is based on the notebooks in which Grossman gathered his raw material.

Focusing on the airborne battle of Arnhem, this gripping account by a prizewinning historian and bestselling author delves into the complexities and challenges faced during this significant military operation. The narrative offers a detailed reconstruction of events, providing insights into the strategies, experiences, and consequences of the battle, making it an essential read for history enthusiasts and those interested in World War II.

From critically acclaimed world historian Antony Beevor, this is the first major account in more than twenty years to cover the whole invasion from June 6, 1944, right up to the liberation of Paris on August 25. It is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting

In September 1944, having sped through France and Belgium, Montgomery sought to race into Germany and to end the war by Christmas. It wasn't, of course, that simple. Operation Market Garden would drop Allied troops into The Netherlands, held by Nazi Germany, to secure key bridges across the Rhine along the path of advance. But it was folly - in the Dutch staff college exams, any candidate who adopted this plan had been failed on the spot. Indeed, the campaign ended in a glorious defeat, and half of the 12,000 Allied troops taken prisoner. With his typical authority and skill in bringing a campaign to life, Britain's bestselling historian creates a gripping, vivid narrative that shows why the battle was fought, and lost. With masterful command of material from a vast range of sources, he also paints the human side of war, and its heroes and villains - "more like a prosperous dentist than the head of the Waffen-SS" - and moments of glory and humour too. This is classic Antony Beevor - on an iconic campaign.