D-Day
  • Published: 6 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241982488
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99
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D-Day

The Battle for Normandy

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24 May 2012
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26 Apr 2012
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6 Jul 2017
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The closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor, read by Cameron Stewart.

'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. 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. As casualties mounted, so too did the tensions between the principal commanders on both sides. Meanwhile, French civilians caught in the middle of these battlefields or under Allied bombing endured terrible suffering. Even the joys of Liberation had their darker side.

Antony Beevor's gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war.
  • Published: 6 July 2017
  • ISBN: 9780241982488
  • Imprint: Penguin Audio
  • Format: Audio Download
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Antony Beevor

Antony Beevor's books include Crete - The Battle and the Resistance, which won a Runciman Prize; Paris After the Liberation, 1944-1949 (written with his wife, Artemis Cooper); Stalingrad, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize, the Wolfson Prize for History and the Hawthornden Prize for Literature; Berlin - The Downfall, which received the first Longman ­History Today Trustees' Award; and, most recently, The Battle for Spain. His books have appeared in thirty foreign editions and sold nearly four million copies.

portrait photo of Antony Beevor

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Praise for D-Day

Beevor can be credited with single-handedly transforming the reputation of military history

David Edgar, Guardian

His singular ability to make huge historical events accessible to a general audience recalls the golden age of British narrative history, whose giants include Gibbon, Macaulay and Carlyle

Boyd Tonkin, Independent

A knockout reassessment of one of the Second World War's great set-piece battles. Swoops from the vicious close-quarter fighting in the hedgerows to the petrified French onlookers and onwards to the political leaders wrestling with monumental decisions

Sunday Times

Beevor has succeeded brilliantly. D-Day can sit proudly alongside his other masterworks on Stalingrad and the fall of Berlin. Superbly brings the events of that summer to life again

Patrick Bishop, Daily Telegraph

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

Impeccable, splendid, thoroughly researched and gripping. Beevor is master of narrative, expertly blending the grand sweep with the telling anecdote

Dominic Sandbrook, Observer

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

No writer can surpass Beevor in making sense of a crowded battlefield and in balancing the explanation of tactical manoeuvres with poignant flashes of human detail

Christopher Silvester, Daily Express
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