Author:John Keegan
The Allied assault on Normandy beaches was an almost flawless success, but it was to take three months of bitter fighting before the German defence of Normandy finally collapsed and Paris was liberated.
In this masterly and highly individual account of that struggle, the reader is subjected to the gruelling ordeals confronted by the combatants - each encounter related from the point of view of a different nationality. While transcending conventional military history, it provides an intensely vivid picture of one of the Second World War's most crucial campaigns.
As well as being a rare military historian who can also write gracefully, John Keegan has a distinguished capacity for peering behind the conventional view of events.
—— Alistair Horne , Sunday TimesFascinating. An intricate, gracefully told and often moving social history of a talented family in times of revolution, civil war, dictatorship and world conflict
—— Rachel Polonsky , New StatesmanA fascinating spy story, a delicious entertainment, a compelling investigation
—— Simon Sebag-Montefiore , Evening StandardAn extraordinary drama of exile and espionage
—— Boyd Tonkin , IndependentBeevor uses the story to evoke a world - the vague ideological borderlands of Nazism and Communism
—— Felipe Fernández-Armesto , The TimesNo previous biographer has examined Hitler's devilishness in Kershaw's detail ... his book is so comprehensive, so richly documented and so judicious that it will not soon be superseded
—— Daniel Johnson , Daily TelegraphA riveting narrative ... the text positively crackles with fascinating insights and interesting perceptions ... this is unquestionably an outstanding biography
—— Frank McLynn , Herald
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