Beevor D Day

Antony Beevor on his new book D-day

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[Gavin Townsley]

There's a lot of idiots in these comments!

[avidalocan]

Berlin was obviously three stories he wrote from totally different angles which he then clumsily tried to weave together into a coherent whole, succeeding only in seperating the threads even more and yet further isolating each nuclei of action from the full scope of events surrounding them. It isn't actually a book - it's a failed attempt at a book. Ryan's The Last Battle (1966) is its antithesis - written holistically rather than three academic essays crudely overlapping

[PowerFromKnowledge]

What part of the structure did you find confusing?

[avidalocan]

D-Day(2009) is a great work. Berlin The Downfall(2002) wasn't particularly good - it had a confusing structure. Stalingrad (1998) was great. If you read Paris (1994), you'll see that his military history skills weren't as developed, but it's still a good work, co-written with his wife. D-Day is as good as Stalingrad but in a different way, and it is more diverse. Beevor has improved.

The best account of the landings is in Cornelius Ryan's The Longest Day (1959) - it's astounding literature.

[kivaari1]

Vedernikov's right-Beevors work is questonable, Beevor claims former sniper Tania Chernova is a fanatic he then tried to call her a fraud saying there were no Soviet female snipers in 1942,Well he's very wrong, 2 famous Soviet female snipers were awarded Hero of the Soviet Union medal in 1942(Natalia Kovshova and M.Polivanova),Genya Golovatova and Veronica factor were also famous female snipers in Stalingrad 1942. And famous lady sniper Lyudmila Pavlichenko who shot 309 Nazis in 1942.many others

[SashaVedernikov]

Because this guy did quick research and wrote down what ever he was told-he even said he practically begged his publisher to let him write a book on something other than Stalingrad/ww2. Thats why I say his books are laughable because I a 17 year old have to correct his mistakes, with easy research I did in online Russian archives/original documents and letters from the war as well as veterans memoirs