Customer Reviews
Puts you squarely into the bocage - By: Maxwell Stone, 09 Mar 2010 
Antony Beevor has done it again with a cracking account of the D-Day landings & the battle across France. What makes this such a good read is the way he mixes detailed strategic accounts with personal anecdotes. This helps to bring the subject alivein an extremely effective manner.
My only slight reservation is the extent of the criticism levelled at Montgomery. Now, I accept that he had his faults but I think Beevor's account is a little one sided. He bases many of his opinions on Carlo D'Este's writings which is fine if he provides a balance - which he does not do. For an alternative view try The Lonely Leader by Alistair Horne.
D-Day - By: Annailesstevenson, 21 Feb 2010 An excellent book,in the Bevoir style,The historical knowledge & facts & his writing style makes this another book not to miss.( my husbands review)Birthday present!
Real-life history - red in tooth and claw. - By: Kenneth J. Morris, 21 Feb 2010 Awesome but awful. This meticulously researched & detailed account of the D-Day campaign should be required reading for all secondary school history students. It is not an easy read nor is it a pleasant read. But it is a stark reminder of the hell to which tens of thousands of our young soldiers, sailors & airmen & their US & Commonwealth allies were subjected. Beevor covers the lot - the successes, the failures, the politics & the personalities & with extremely helpful maps to keep the readerin the picture. Excellentin every respect.
Just as boring as Berlin and Stalingrad. - By: J. Busby, 03 Feb 2010 
Better qualified reviewers than I have already pointed out the factual errors & failures of interpretationin this book. There is nothing on the plans for D Day, no analysis, no structure, & it merely hops from one anecdote to another. This is social history not military history. In contrast to other reviewers I found Stalingrad & Berlin just as boring & for the same reasons. Onlyin the Spanish Civil War, where there were no interviews & few memoirs to quote from was Beevor forced to write proper history. Like all military history books published these daysin the UK there is a total reliance on 'oral', & the author, usually a semi-literate journalist, merely provides the banal, unedited, linking narrative. This is military history for those with a short attention span or who don't often read military history. The Normandy novice would have no better idea of the battle at the end of this book than at the beginning. Look out for Beevor's next WWII blockbuster - doubtless Dunkirk, Arnhem or El Alamein- but get it out of the library. Or maybe just don't bother. This was not worth the reservation fee.
D- Day, The Battle for Normandy - By: Dr. R. H. Kathane, 13 Jan 2010 Excellent book, a very detailed & informative account. You can really only appreciate the book if you have personally visited the battlefields of IInd world Warin that area. I would strongly recommend a conducted, guided coach tour.My wife & I did that some 6 years ago & the whole picture became clear to us. what a sacrifice people had putin for our freedom. We need to be forever grateful to them. The book captures these areas very neatly.
Dr Raj Kathane
