2016-05-01
Terrific...
But unfortunately the author needed another 2000 pages to flesh out a lot of actions that are mentioned in passing.
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A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian.
*****
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 the most terrible war in history.
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4.0 of 5 (59 Ratings)
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2013-02-22
Simply outstanding
An absolute must read for any WW2 enthusiast. This man is an excellent writer and relentlessly hard working historian. This book is his masterpiece. After reading this I've gone on to read 'Stalingrad' and 'Berlin', both excellent but Stalingrad is particularly gripping. Two words. Buy it.
2012-08-22
Maps
Loving this book, and having read most of Antony Beevor's publications as paper books wanted to try this one through the medium of the iBook. This is my first purchase of an iBook and the whole iPad experience is great... apart from the VERY disappointing low readability of the maps! For a book like the maps are vital to understanding the often complex ebbs and flows of war and for the reader to being able to grasp the geography. The maps look great at 100% but try zooming in to read place names and the low resolution nature of the map means that the text remains illegible and blurry, no matter how much one zooms in! Why we the creators of this ibook not able to embed higher resolution images? Or non-bitmap SVG/vector type illustrations? Or have links to high res versions online? Incredibly frustrating and will probably mean I have to go and buy a print version... If these iBooks a going to reach their full potential then this would seem to me to be a crucial technological stumbling block that needs to be overcome.