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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.

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.

The Spanish Civil War is a compelling account of one of the most hard-fought and bitter wars of the twentieth century: a war of atrocities and political genocide that was a military testing ground before the Second World War for the Russians, Italians, and Germans. With his thorough and contemporary examination of the Spanish civil war, historian Antony Beevor unravels the complex events from the coup d'etat which started the war in July of 1936 to the final defeat of the Republicans in 1939. This highly readable account leaves out none of the familiar aspects, exploring them with a clear eye and providing important new insights into the war-its causes, course, and consequences.

'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.

Vasili Grossman, el autor de Vida y destino, una de las más grandes novelas del siglo XX, acompañó al ejército soviético en la segunda guerra mundial como corresponsal de "Estrella Roja". Al margen de lo que escribia para el periodico, Grossman dejo registradas sus experiencias en unos cuadernos, que se han mantenido ineditos hasta hoy, donde cuenta sincerament lo que vio en las calles de Stalingrado, en la batalla de Kursk, en la reconquista de Ucrania o en el avance del Ejercito Rojo Alemania adentro, con los horrores de Treblinka o las escenas cotidianas de saqueos y violaciones. "A veces, escribe, te trastorna tanto lo que has visto que se te acelera el corazon y sabes que la terrible imagen que acabas de ver pesra sobre tu alma toda tu vida". Antony Beevor ha transcrito estos cuadernos de Grossman, combinandolos con sus articulos, sus cartas y otros materiales para componer con todo ello un relato de dimensiones epicas que tal vez sea el mas dramatico y revelador testimonio de lo que fue realmente la mayor guerra de todos los tiempos.

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 reconstruccion de aquella gesta mostrandonos, 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 libro la batalla mas 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.

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.

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 habia contado.

El pack incluye los libros de Stalingrado y El misterio de Olga Chejova. Lleva de obsequio el libro de La batalla de CretaStalingrado(más de 40mil ejemplares vendidos)La batalla más decisiva de la segunda guerra mundial.El misterio de Olga ChejovaLa historia de la actriz favorita de Hitler y espia de Stalin.La batalla de CretaBeevor nos ofrece en este libro el estudio mas documentado y brillante que existe tanto de la batalla como la epica resistencia del pueblo de Creta contra el invasor aleman.

El pack incluye los libros de Berlín y París. Lleva de obsequio el libro de La batalla de Creta.Berlín. La caida: 1945(más de 40mil ejemplares vendidos)Antony Beevor reconstruye en este libro la última gran batalla de la segunda guerra mundial y la estremecedora agonia del Tercer Reich.Paris. Despues de la liberacion 1944-49Escrito en colaboracion con Artemis Cooper, Beevor nos describe la ocupacion de Paris por los alemanes, la resistencia y los posteriores meses a la liberacion.La batalla de CretaBeevor nos ofrece en este libro el estudio mas documentado y brillante que existen tanto de batalla como la epica resistencia del pueblo de Creta conta el invasor aleman.

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