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Biographical note
Antony Beevor is the author of CRETE: The Battle and the Resistance (Runciman Prize), STALINGRAD (Samuel Johnson Prize, Wolfson Prize for History and Hawthornden Prize), BERLIN: The Downfall, THE BATTLE FOR SPAIN (Premio La Vanguardia), D-DAY: The Battle for Normandy (Prix Henry Malherbe and the RUSI Westminster Medal), THE SECOND WORLD WAR, ARDENNES 1944 (Prix Médicis shortlist) and ARNHEM: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944. Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold more than eight million copies. A former chairman of the Society of Authors, he has received a number of honorary doctorates. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Kent and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London. He was knighted in 2017.<b>Fascination lies in the human drama, superbly captured by Beevor</b> ... a vivid chronicle of a dreadful time and place
- Max Hastings, Sunday Times
In many ways it's <b>his most impressive book to date</b> because he coolly makes sense of such a complicated story: the narrative sweep is consummate, the seamless use of so many sources masterful, and the eye for details makes it <b>a superb read</b>
- Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday
An admirably clear-sighted account ... <b>a great achievement</b>
- Miranda France, Daily Telegraph
<b>A moving masterpiece</b> of the indictment of war
- Felipe Fernández-Armesto, Times Literary Supplement
<b>A gripping, revelatory account</b>
Sunday Telegraph
This is <b>an enthralling book</b>. The narrative is masterly, wonderfully clear as a guide through the labyrinth. It is even-tempered and full of good sense ... It is admirable
Literary Review
It is <b>an admirably clear-sighted account</b>. What Beevor does so well is to place the war in the context of Spanish history and world politics ... Beevor's understanding of warfare and tactics is second to none ... This is <b>a great achievement </b>
Daily Telegraph
A very different book, which <b>displays all Beevor's exceptional narrative skills and literary flair</b>. The story he tells is grimly familiar, but he presents it with a freshness, an eye for detail and a degree of detachment that makes this <b>one of the best accounts to date of the Spanish crisis</b>
Evening Standard
Antony Beevor's revised history of the Civil War, which vividly anatomises a state and a society in the process of disintegration, is <b>a tract for our times</b> ... Above all, he has Beevorised the book, given it the richness of detail and the narrative drive that made <i>Stalingrad </i>such a success
Guardian
For the big picture of the war, all the more powerful for its blending of narrative intensity with emotional restraint, <b>there is no rival to Antony Beevor's masterly <i>The Battle for Spain</i></b>
Independent
<i>The Battle for Spain </i>looks likely to become <b>the standard account of the conflict for at least the next generation</b>
London Review of Books
exhaustive and admirably clear account.
THE SUNDAY TIMES
the definitive book on the subject.
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