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D-Day
- The Battle for Normandy
- Narrated by: Cameron Stewart
- Length: 19 hrs and 48 mins
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Summary
Penguin presents the unabridged downloadable audiobook edition of D-Day: The Battle for Normandy by Antony Beevor, read by Cameron Stewart.
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.
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- Blobbo
- 16-03-18
brilliant book but please drop the accents
As always Antony Beevor delivers a magisterial study, beautifully written. Cameron Stewart reads it well, at just the right pitch and pace, EXCEPT for the stereotypical accents he adopts when reading dialogue. The German sounds like something from Hogan's Heroes, the French from 'Allo Allo and, as a born-and-bred Belfast man, I just cringed each time he tried a north of Ireland accent. Unnecessary, Mr Stewart. Highly recommended. I agree with another reviewer; even though I've visited the Normandy battlefields 6 times now, I found a detailed map really useful when listening to help me place the action in context, and understand the interactions between the different sectors at any given point.
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- AnthonySAM
- 23-08-18
And I always thought we Brits were involved with the D Day invasion!
I listened to the whole of this book which IS brilliantly narrated. My conclusion is that it has short changed our brave and innovative British Forces in favour of the Americans. Montgomery was apparently a very nasty fellow. De Gaulle it seems liberated Paris single handed. My father in the Royal Engineers who participated in this staggering event must have lied to me about what went on when I was a baby aged two. UK literally bleed it to death in it's determination to get rid of Nazis but this book majorly underplays UK's part in D Day and beyond.
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- Ronan
- 05-12-17
Terrible.
The accents are the worst I've ever heard on an audio book. I tried to ignore them but gave up at chapter 10. Beevor is great historian but the narration is absolutely terrible. I'm furious and will demand my money back.
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- Paul
- 04-09-17
First attempt at history on tape.
Wasn't sure about the accents to start with but realised they did help when jumping between quotes.
It's very hard to keep track of statistics without a notepad to write them down! Not that they mattered much to the overall book.
Hardest part for me was not having the references to support the content, which is clearly a down side of a narrated history book. A podcast which is intended for audio will references items out loud.
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- Barry Martin Cooke
- 15-08-19
Hollywood D-Day
The book fails to provide a balanced account of the most important events leading up to, during and after the D-Day landings. The book frequently drifts into lengthy descriptions of relatively unimportant events such as the taking of Paris and at times delivers questionable opinions such as the relevance of the US S France landings.
There is a lack of a balanced description of British, Canadian and American Land Armies operations throughout the book. For the avoidance of doubt, British and Canadian Forces played a major role by fighting the majority and best German troops deployed in the region. Moreover, the book is seriously flawed by failing to provided a balanced account of the most important events leading up to, during and after the D-Day landings.
Beevor’s reputation of arrogance perhaps fuels his assertions over the behaviour and capabilities of commanders both sides of the conflict. For example, Beaver’s opinion of Montgomery was almost certainly not reflected by the vast majority of those who served under Montgomery. Beevor’s views on Patton are questionable which throws overall doubt on Beevor’s judgement of the lesser known commanders involved.
There are some serious omissions including the sea battles throughout the D-Day Campaign. The RAF barely gets a mention...clearly Beaver never met or perhaps ignored the opinions of the terror felt by the Germans. The role of Bletchley deserved proper attention.
Beaver’s description of D-Day at best suits a Hollywood US Army script. Sadly, it fails to deliver a proper account of D-Day
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- defunnell
- 20-09-17
comprehensive account of d-day through to Paris.
Really good. Overview of all military actions, peppered with stories of success, failure, bitter comedy and horror. Finished the book with a far greater understanding of the subject than I started with.
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- MR K Hayes
- 15-07-17
Antony Beevor excellent as usual
gives a real feeling of how people behave in that dreadful situation and the dynamics failures and successes of leadership .
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- David
- 16-08-18
Don’t worry about the negativity re accents
Having read many reviews complaining about the accents used by the narrator, I nearly didn’t listen to this book. I am so pleased I chose to ignore them.
Superbly written and researched, it bought the story of DDay to life.
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- mcsmall
- 26-07-17
Detailed account but not as good as Stalingrad
Anthony Beevor is a leading military historian whose works on Stalingrad and Berlin are excellent.
This is a detailed account not just of D Day but of the campaign in France until the liberation of Paris.However, at times it lacks analysis.
The narration was spoiled by the narrator's use of accents which were not merely unnecessary but unintentionally comical at times, which detracted from the serious nature of the subject matter
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- Paul R
- 23-06-20
Adequate
Decent book, but the British account was patchy and a poor overview on Montgomery - I thought at one stage it was being written by Patton's aid? In stages it repeated sections and became very hard to listen to.
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