Reissued ed. from 2017

Vestlandshærens innsats var ifølge general Otto Ruge et av få lyspunkter under felttoget i Sør-Norge i april i 1940. Bildet er imidlertid sammensatt og ikke uten mørkere sider. Utenfor Nord-Norge var det bare på Vestlandet at Hæren lyktes med å mobilisere noenlunde i samsvar med planene. Avdelingene fra Hordaland og Sogn og Fjordane var ifølge Ruge de best rustede og best organiserte enhetene som ble satt opp i Sør-Norge i 1940. Avdelingene kjempet i Hordaland, i Hallingdal og framfor alt i Valdres, der også enheter fra Vestoppland infanteriregiment ble tatt opp i Vestlandshæren (4. feltbrigade). Boken gir en usminket beskrivelse av det som utspant seg både ved og bak fronten i løpet av tre dramatiske uker våren 1940. Gjennom øyenvitnebeskrivelser kommer vi tett på begivenhetene og får vite hvordan soldatene sloss, og hvorfor de tross mange anstrengelser til slutt måtte se nederlaget i øynene. Boken beskriver også samarbeidet med det sivile samfunnet og konsekvensene krigen fikk for sivilbefolkningen. Dette er den første samlede framstillingen av Vestlandshærens krigsinnsats i 1940. «En oppsiktsvekkende god og grundig bok … Thomassen går inn i historien på bred front. Han supplerer og synkroniser sitt stoff med samtidige øyenvitneberetninger og autentiske enkeltskjebner. Og vi som leser alt dette, dras med i historiens dreieskive. Det er Beevor-metoden, det. Skapt av vår tids fremste krigskronikør, Antony Beevor, med enorm internasjonal suksess.» [Terningkast 6] Arne Dvergsdal, Dagbladet

Post liberation Paris - an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning historical account of one of the most stimulating periods in twentieth century French history.

Orlando Figes' The Whisperers is a groundbreaking account of daily life in the chaotic and paranoid atmosphere of Stalinist Russia. Exploring the inner life of a Russia where everyone was afraid to talk and society spoke in whispers, whether to protect friends and family - or to betray them - Orlando Figes tells the story of how Russians tried to endure life under Stalin's Terror. Where a junior worker might inform on their superior to get their job; a husband to get rid of a lover; a neighbour out of petty jealousy. Where living a double life became the norm and yet, somehow, a few defied the state. Those who shaped the political system became, very frequently, its victims. Those who were its victims were frequently quite blameless. Drawing on hundreds of family archives from across the whole spectrum of Russian society, The Whisperers recreates the sort of maze in which Russians found themselves, where an unwitting wrong turn could either destroy a family or, perversely, later save it: a society in which everyone spoke in whispers - whether to protect themselves, their families, neighbours or friends - or to inform on them. 'Wonderful ... an amazing panoramic view ... I've rarely read anything like it' Claire Tomalin 'Awesome ... one of the most unforgettable books I have ever read. I defy anyone to read it without weeping at its human suffering, cruelty and courage' Simon Sebag Montefiore, Mail on Sunday 'This is a heart-rending book ... its importance cannot be overestimated ... This book should be made compulsory reading in Russia today' Antony Beevor, author Of Stalingrad 'A masterful account of lost and stolen lives' Sunday Times Orlando Figes is Professor of History at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of Peasant Russia, Civil War, A Peoples Tragedy, Natasha's Dance and The Whisperers. He lives in Cambridge and London. His books have been translated into over twenty languages.

When he receives an invitation to deliver a lecture in the Ukrainian city of Lviv, international lawyer Philippe Sands begins a journey on the trail of his family's secret history. In doing so, he uncovers an astonishing series of coincidences that lead him halfway across the world, to the origins of international law at the Nuremberg trial. Interweaving the stories of the two Nuremberg prosecutors (Hersch Lauterpacht and Rafael Lemkin) who invented the crimes or genocide and crimes against humanity, the Nazi governor responsible for the murder of thousands in and around Lviv (Hans Frank), and incredible acts of wartime bravery, EAST WEST STREET is an unforgettable blend of memoir and historical detective story, and a powerful meditation on the way memory, crime and guilt leave scars across generations.

George Orwell is one of England's most famous writers and social commentators. Among his works are the classic political satire Animal Farm and the dystopian nightmare vision Nineteen Eighty-Four. Orwell was also a prolific essayist, and it is for these works that he was perhaps best known during his lifetime. They include Why I Write and Politics and the English Language. His writing is at once insightful, poignant and entertaining, and continues to be read widely all over the world. Eric Arthur Blair (George Orwell) was born in 1903 in India, where his father worked for the Civil Service. The family moved to England in 1907 and in 1917 Orwell entered Eton, where he contributed regularly to the various college magazines. From 1922 to 1927 he served with the Indian Imperial Police in Burma, an experience that inspired his first novel, Burmese Days (1934). Several years of poverty followed. He lived in Paris for two years before returning to England, where he worked successively as a private tutor, schoolteacher and bookshop assistant, and contributed reviews and articles to a number of periodicals. Down and Out in Paris and London was published in 1933. In 1936 he was commissioned by Victor Gollancz to visit areas of mass unemployment in Lancashire and Yorkshire, and The Road to Wigan Pier (1937) is a powerful description of the poverty he saw there. At the end of 1936 Orwell went to Spain to fight for the Republicans and was wounded. Homage to Catalonia is his account of the civil war. He was admitted to a sanatorium in 1938 and from then on was never fully fit. He spent six months in Morocco and there wrote Coming Up for Air. During the Second World War he served in the Home Guard and worked for the BBC Eastern Service from 1941 to 1943. As literary editor of the Tribune he contributed a regular page of political and literary commentary, and he also wrote for the Observer and later for the Manchester Evening News. His unique political allegory, Animal Farm was published in 1945, and it was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which brought him world-wide fame. It was around this time that Orwell's unique political allegory Animal Farm (1945) was published. The novel is recognised as a classic of modern political satire and is simultaneously an engaging story and convincing allegory. It was this novel, together with Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949), which finally brought him world-wide fame. Nineteen Eighty-Four's ominous depiction of a repressive, totalitarian regime shocked contemporary readers, but ensures that the book remains perhaps the preeminent dystopian novel of modern literature. Orwell's fiercely moral writing has consistently struck a chord with each passing generation. The intense honesty and insight of his essays and non-fiction made Orwell one of the foremost social commentators of his age. Added to this, his ability to construct elaborately imaginative fictional worlds, which he imbued with this acute sense of morality, has undoubtedly assured his contemporary and future relevance. George Orwell died in London in January 1950.

A magisterial, single-volume history of the greatest conflict the world has ever known by our foremost military historian. The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's THE SECOND WORLD WAR never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.

The Number One BestsellerReissued with a new foreword for the 75th Anniversary This is the closest you will ever get to war - the taste, the smell, the noise and the fear The Normandy Landings that took place on D-Day involved by far the largest invasion fleet ever known. The scale of the undertaking was awesome and what followed was some of the most cunning and ferocious fighting of the war. 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 inimitably gripping narrative conveys the true experience of war. He lands the reader on the beach alongside the heroes whose stories he so masterfully renders in their full terrifying glory. 'Magnificent, vivid, moving, superb' Max Hastings, Sunday Times'A thrilling story, with all Beevor's narrative mastery' Chris Patten, Financial Times'Beevor's D-Day has all the qualities that have made his earlier works so successful: an eye for telling and unusual detail, an ability to make complex events understandable, and a wonderful graphic style' Ian Kershaw, Guardian, Books of the Year'D-Day's phenomenal success is both understandable and justified' James Holland 'D-Day is a triumph . . . on almost every page there's some little detail that sticks in the mind or tweaks the heart. This is a terrific, inspiring, heart-breaking book' Sam Leith, Daily MailAntony 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 Medicis shortlist) and Arnhem. The number one bestselling historian in Britain, Beevor's books have appeared in thirty-three languages and have sold over 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.

I juli 1936 utbröt en militärrevolt mot den spanska regeringen under ledning av general Franco. Striderna övergick snabbt till ett regelrätt inbördeskrig som av många anses vara en av de våldsammaste konflikterna under 1900-talet. Spanska inbördeskriget har även setts som upptakten till andra världskriget. I denna oerhört uppmärksammade bok som toppat försäljningslistorna runtom i världen berättar Antony Beevor detta hänsynslösa och passionerade krigs historia. »Antony Beevor har länge visat att han är en suverän populärhistoriker i bästa engelska tradition. Med Spanska inbördeskriget har han skapat ett verk som kommer att bli en klassiker.» Lennart Berntson, Svenska Dagbladet

»Antony Beevor beskriver kriget på ett väldigt levande sätt en väldigt skicklig historiker Även om man inte är inne i andra världskriget, eller van att läsa böcker, så ger Antony Beevor ett riktigt sug in i historien.« Magnus Utvik, Go'morron Sverige SVT Kritikerrosade och storsäljande militärhistorikern Antony Beevor är tillbaka. Med dramatik, briljans och djup kunskap skildrar han Ardenneroffensiven, tyskarnas sista försök att vända andra världskriget. I december 1944 gjorde Hitler sitt sista försök att vinna kriget: i skogarna mellan Belgien och Tyskland drog två pansararméer fram, med syfte att överraska de allierade och vända kriget till nazisternas fördel. Ardenneroffensiven involverade mer än en miljon soldater och var ett av andra världskrigets största slag. I Ardennerna 1944 skildrar Antony Beevor detta historiska skeende, som till slut ledde till tyskarnas sammanbrott och efterlängtad fred.br> Antony Beevor är en av vår tids ledande militärhistoriska författare. Hans böcker Stalingrad, Berlin, D-dagen och Andra världskriget har alla sålt i stora upplagor i Sverige. Totalt har hans böcker sålts i över 6 miljoner exemplar. Pressröster om Ardennerna 1944: »Convincing as a portrait of war and startling in its detail. Beevor cares about the soldiers and the readers and the truth, an old-fashioned set of concerns that is balanced with modern literary skill.« The Guardian »The Master of War ... He focuses brilliantly on the key moments that turned the battle.« The Evening Standard »Beevor writes with an eye for the personal that keeps the narrative flowing ... This is history as it should be written.« The Spectator »Beevor weaves a brilliant narrative out of all this drama.« The Sunday Times » ... en levande bild av krigets kaos ... Beevor rör sig ledigt mellan den politiska nivån och hela det militära spektrumet från befälhavarnas strategiska bryderier till frontsoldaternas taktiska situation ... Beevor är mycket bra på att skildra inte bara soldaternas umbäranden, han beskriver också väl de civila som hamnade mitt i vad som snarast liknar en medeltida helvetesmålning.« Militär Historia »Detta är ett av Beevors mästerverk ... Som läsare får man inblick både i beslutsfattande på högsta nivå, som i den slitsamma vardagen på slagfältet. Antony Beevor har återigen visat sitt kunnande och på ett föredömligt sätt gjort det tillgängligt för läsaren.« Ölandsbladet »Beevor lyckas verkligen tillföra något nytt till bilden av den tyska Ardenneroffensiven.« Tidskriften Respons Svenska pressröster om Antony Beevor: »Den klarast lysande stjärnan på andra världskrigsböckernas himmel är den brittiske författaren Antony Beevor.« Svenska Dagbladet »Antony Beevor är en samtida Tolstoj, som med sina historiska böcker håller på att skapa ett litterärt storverk som kommer att stå sig under en lång tid framöver.« Dagens Nyheter

Between 1917 and 1921 a devastating struggle took place in Russia following the collapse of the Tsarist empire. Many regard this savage civil war as the most influential event of the modern era. An incompatible White alliance of moderate socialists and reactionary monarchists stood little chance against Trotsky's Red Army and Lenin's single-minded Communist dictatorship. Terror begat terror, which in turn led to even greater cruelty with man's inhumanity to man, woman and child. The struggle became a world war by proxy as Churchill deployed weaponry and troops from the British empire, while armed forces from the United States, France, Italy, Japan, Poland and Czechoslovakia played rival parts. Using the most up to date scholarship and archival research, Antony Beevor, author of the acclaimed international bestseller Stalingrad, assembles the complete picture in a gripping narrative that conveys the conflict through the eyes of everyone from the worker on the streets of Petrograd to the cavalry officer on the battlefield and the woman doctor in an improvised hospital.