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......

The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as......

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 16 December 1944, Hitler launched his \"last gamble\" in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes on the Belgian/German border. Although Hitler\"s generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to......

The advance on Berlin - it was to be the largest battle in history - began at exactly 4am on 16 April, 1945. Along the Oder Neisse front, two and a half million Soviet troops attacked one million Germans. The panic this induced in the German civilian population is easy to imagine....

On February 23, 1836, a large Mexican army led by dictator Santa Anna reached San Antonio and laid siege to about 175 Texas rebels holed up in the Alamo. The Texans refused to surrender for nearly two weeks until almost 2,000 Mexican troops unleashed......

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....

The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as......

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....

The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome. What followed them was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war, at times as savage as anything seen on the Eastern Front....

Olga Chekhova was a stunning Russian beauty and a famous Nazi-era film actress who was closely associated with Hitler; she was also the niece of playwright Anton Chekhov. After fleeing Bolshevik Moscow for Berlin in 1920, she was recruited by her......

In his latest work, Antony Beevorabestselling author of Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945 and one of our most respected historians of World War IIa brings us the true, little-known story of a family torn apart by revolution and war....

As near as possible to experiencing what it was like to be there...It is almost impossible for a reader not to get caught up in the excitement . (Giles Foden, Guardian ). The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was simply awesome....

Hitler made two fundamental and crippling mistakes during the Second World War: The first was his whimsical belief that the United Kingdom would eventually become his ally, which delayed his decision to launch a major invasion of Britain, whose army was unprepared for the force of blitzkrieg warfare....

Antony Beevors preisgekrontes, glanzend recherchiertes Buch tiber die psychologisch entscheidende Schlacht des Zweiten Weltkriegs verleiht erstmals auch denen eine Stimme, die sonst in der offiziellen Geschichtsschreibung kaum Beachtung finden: der Zivilbevolkerung von Stalingrad und den Soldaten auf beiden Seiten der Front, die diesen Konflikt bis...