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'Fascinating, extraordinary, gripping' - Jeremy Paxman. The Storming of Berlin had been the Red Army's dream of vengeance ever since the German's invasion of Russia in the summer of 1941. Antony Beevor has reconstituted the experience of those millions caught up in the nightmare crescendo of the Third Reich's final defeat.

From the bestselling author of Stalingrad, Berlin and D-Day, Antony Beevor's Ardennes 1944: Hitler's Last Gamble tells the story of the German's ill-fated final stand.On 16 December, 1944, Hitler launched his 'last gamble' in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes. He believed he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp, then force the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. Many were exultant at the prospect of striking back.The Ardennes offensive, with more than a million men involved, became the greatest battle of the war in western Europe. American troops, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. Belgian civilians fled, justifiably afraid of German revenge. Panic spread even to Paris. While many American soldiers fled or surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters which slowed the German advance.The harsh winter conditions and the savagery of the battle became comparable to the eastern front. And after massacres by the Waffen-SS, even American generals approved when their men shot down surrendering Germans. The Ardennes was the battle which finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht.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 appeared in thirty foreign editions and sold over six million copies.

El desarrollo del conflicto como si hubiera sucedido la semana anterior. En mayo de 1941, tras la invasión de Grecia y Yugoslavia, Hitler ordenó la ocupación de Creta, la isla más meridional del E

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 tecnicas documentales semejantes a las empleadas en Stalingrado pero con mayor aliento epico y mas densidad politica, Beevor combina como nadie un extraordinario talento de militar e historiador con unas dotes narrativas fuera de lo comun para describir tanto la complejidad de las grandes operaciones militares y la logica de las decisiones de sus mandos como los sentimientos de la gente comun atrapada en un torbellino de fuego y metralla: la desesperacion de Hitler, los deseos de venganza de Stalin, la impotencia de Guderian o la astucia de Zhukov, pero tambien la paradojica inocencia de unos niños jugando a la guerra con espadas de madera en mitad de sus casas destruidas por las bombas o el asco y el resentimiento de las mujeres brutalmente violadas por soldados sovieticos al tiempo que fanaticos de las SS ejecutan a cualquiera que se atreva a ondear una bandera blanca...a

La última gran batalla europea de la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la estremecedora agonía del Tercer Reich. Combinando unas dotes narrativas fuera de lo común y un extraordinario talento militar, Beevor describe tanto la complejidad de las grandes operaciones militares y la lógica de las decisiones de sus mandos con los sentimientos de la gente atrapada en un torbellino de fuego y metralla.

Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, published by Penguin in 1998, was a worldwide bestseller, telling one of the most harrowing stories of the Second World War and reminding everybody of the power of narrative history in the hands of an expert storyteller. In Christmas at Stalingrad, Beevor takes us back to December 1942 when the German 6th Army was surrounded by the Russians and facing annihilation. Only thoughts of Christmas kept German soldiers' hopes alive.

En Stalingrado se libró la batalla más decisiva de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Gracias a una investigación minuciosa en los archivos rusos y alemanes, con testimonios hasta ahora desconocidos supervivientes de ambos bandos, Beevor reconstruye la experiencia vivida de una inmensa tragedia como nunca antes se había contado.

The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. This was Antony Beevor's first work of non-fiction, pre-dating his international bestselling STALINGRAD and BERLIN: THE DOWNFALL 1945. Now, more than 20 years later, he has substantially rewritten it drawing on masses of newly-discovered material from the Spanish, Russian and German archives. His account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.

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.

The Sunday Times #1 Bestseller The great airborne battle for the bridges in 1944 by Britain's Number One bestselling historian and author of the classic Stalingrad '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, Arnhem becomes 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

En línea con sus grandes best sellers Stalingrado y Berlín, Antony Beevor, acompañado esta vez por su esposa Artemis Cooper, relata en este libro la agitada historia de Francia durante los años inmediatamente posteriores a su liberacion del dominio nazi. Tras un breve preludio que incluye el colapso de la nacion y la ocupacion de Paris por los alemanes, el colaboracionismo y la resistencia, los autores nos describen las luminosas jornadas de la liberacion, el "Paris, año cero" de Simone de Beauvoir, de Sartre, de Camus y de Malraux, pero tambien de Hemingway, de Beckett, de Picasso y de Garcia Marquez, las purgas salvajes, el gobierno provisional, el regreso de presos y exiliados, la guerra fria, la bulliciosa vida intelectual del barrio latino, los americanos en Paris o el papel desempeñado por el Partido Comunista frances en un libro excepcional escrito a partir de documentos oficiales, archivos privados, memorias personales e historias orales de los protagonistas de aquellos inolvidables años de optimismo y de esperanza. "Este es un libro maravillosamente bien escrito sobre una gran conmocion militar, politica y social. Yo fui testigo de lo que sucedio en Paris en las primeras semanas de locura y esplendor y todo paso como se cuenta en este libro", Dirk Bogarde. "Tecnicame

Stalingrado fue la primera y más decisiva derrota de Hitler. El autor, combinando de manera magistral su conocimiento de las realidades de la guerra con las técnicas narrativas de un gran novelista, hace una soberbia reconstrucción de aquella gesta mostrándonos, en toda su crudeza, la experiencia humana de la guerra, combinando cartas y diarios de los soldados y testimonios orales de los civiles atrapados en la ciudad sitiada.En Stalingrado se libró la batalla más decisiva de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Su historia ha sido contada muchas veces, pero nunca como en este libro de Antony Beevor, que ha sido elogiado por especialistas como Orlando Figes y Robert Conquest, y que se ha convertido en un bestseller internacional.

Por el autor de Stalingrado y Berlín, que ahora se ocupa de la épica resistencia del pueblo de Creta contra el invasor alemán , y lo hace con su rigor y talento literario al que nos tiene acostumbrados. En Mayo de 1941, tras la invasion de Grecia y Yugoslavia, Hitler ordeno la ocupacion de Creta, la isla mas meridional del Egeo, para culminar la campaña del Mediterraneo oriental y proteger los yacimientos de petroleo rumanos de la amenaza de los bombardeos aliados. Los nazis lanzaron un espectacular despliegue aerotransportado sobre Creta en el que intervinieron 500 aviones de transporte y, or lo menos, otros tantos entre bombarderos y cazas. Los ingleses no consiguieron rechazar la invasion y la caida de Creta supuso una de las inflexiones mas criticas de la segunda guerra mundial porque privo a los aliados de una base fundamental y permitio a los alemanes proteger su flanco sur para iniciar la invasion de la Union Sovietica.

Beevor y su esposa, Artemis Cooper, nos muestran el París de Beauvoir, de Camus y de Malraux, pero también de Hemingway, de Beckett, de Picasso y de García Márquez. Un libro excepcional a partir de documentos oficiales, archivos privados y memorias personales de los protagonistas de aquellos inolvidables años de optimismo y de esperanza.

«Una poderosa narración de la batalla de Normandía difícilmente superable.» Max Hastings, Sunday Times. Antony Beevor ha alcanzado justa fama universal con sus libros de historia del siglo XX, ent