childhood stalingrad resistance liberation

books:

43 reviews
Antony Beevor

Orbis, 1982

Francisco Franco is still dead....
le for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-1939 by Antony Beevor is a much better book than the first full length book that I read on the Spanish Civil War--The Spanish Republic and the Civil War, 1931-1939 by Gabriel Jackson. Beevor is much more clear in his explanations and much more thorough in his description of the actual war. In defense of Jackson, he spent much of his book examining the ...

Paris After the Liberation 1944-1949: Revised Edition

5 reviews
Antony Beevor, Artemis Cooper

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004

The "City of Light" comes back to life
I have enjoyed many books by Mr. Beevor, and this one is as well-written and infornative as his others. Everyone knows, at least in some way, the story of WWII and the Occupation of Paris, but most of us do not know what happened in that city, and in France, after it was liberated. This book fills in our gap in that knowledge quite well, and it shows that France was really on the front lines of ...

The Mystery of Olga Chekhova

8 reviews
Antony Beevor

Viking Press, 2004

Caught up in a vicious circle of espionage and deception
People are disappointed that Antony Beevor isn't writing some super huge history of war like his previous book on Stalingrad. I say, cut him some slack. The book contrasts the lives and characters of two women with confusingly simnilar names. One was Olga, the widow of Anton Chekhov, who created roles in the original Moscow Art Theater productions of his plays (at the turn of the century) ...

Berlin: The Downfall 1945 (Hebrew Edition)
Antony Beevor, 2003

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army 1941-1945

31 reviews
Vasily Grossman

Knopf Canada, 2006

Stalingrad, Kursk, Treblinka and More
Vasili Semenovich Grossman was a decorated Soviet military journalist best known in the West for his epic novel, Life and Fate (New York Review Books Classics). In 'A Writer at War' editors and translators Anthony Beevor (Stalingrad: The Fateful Siege: 1942-1943), an esteemed historian and author in his own right, and Luba Vinogradova, follow Grossman's progression through the war by piecing ...

The Fall of Berlin 1945

126 reviews
Antony Beevor

Penguin (Non-Classics), 2003

brutal end to a brutal war
This is a story of epic violence, the final act of staggering and extended violence of the Second World War in Europe, the campaign for, envelopment and destruction of Berlin and a good share of its population, by the Red Army. Beevor's book is riveting, well written, engrossing, and emotionally compelling. Beevor covers the campaign from every perspective, from the planning by Stalin and ...

STALINGRAD

244 reviews
ANTONY BEEVOR

PENGUIN, 1999

Great In-depth Analysis
A great in-depth analysis of the events and personalities that preceded, occurred during and resulted from the battle. I highly recommend this book.

A Writer at War: Vasily Grossman with the Red Army
Vasily Grossman

Vintage Canada, 2007

Edited and translated from the Russian by Antony Beevor and Luba Vinogradova Knopf Canada is proud to present a masterpiece of the Second World War, never before published in English, from one of the great Russian writers of the 20th century ? a vivid eyewitness account of the Eastern Front and ?the ruthless truth of war.? When the Germans invaded Russia in 1941, Vasily Grossman became a special correspondent for the Red Star, the Red Army?s ...

Tuscan Childhood, A

13 reviews
Antony Beevor

Pantheon, 1999

Wonderful book
Kinta Beevor, author of only this book, comes from a family of writers, including her son, the reknown author, Antony Beevor. It must be a genetic feature that families produce wonderful writers. She draws you into her world, like a welcoming friend. You will experience historic events and the world as it was in Tuscany in the 19th century and the early 20th century. You will get to know many of ...

Stalingrad
Antony Beevor

Goldmann, 2001

Crete: The Battle and the Resistance (History and Warfare)

10 reviews
Antony Beevor

Westview Press, 1994

The demise of the German paratroopers
Again, a book about a comparatively unknown episode during the second world war. The fight for Crete can be summarized as one long series of mistakes, by both sides, and it was the Greek civilians that were left to pay. The Germans plan was overambitious in the extreme, especially considering their limited transportation resources. The British were so extremely arrogant and clumsy that they ...

What Ifs? of American History: Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been

18 reviews
Antony Beevor, Calebert Carr, ...

Putnam Adult, 2003

Great book with one notable omission, possibly two
That omission would be a highly plausible counterfactual of us not entering World War I. First, in the real world, WWI, as opposed to WWII, had no moral dimension to it, except as Wilson tried to impose it. So, another president could have gone in a different direction, especially one insisting that Britain's blockade by extension (not directly blockading Germany, but instead shipping to ...

search for books
childhood, historians, liberation, resistance, stalingrad

Impressum / about us