Arnhem: The Battle for the Bridges, 1944 (Paperback)

'This absorbing new account of the battle with the eye for telling detail which we have come to expect from Antony Beevor... this time, though, he turns his brilliance as a military historian to a subject not just of defeat, but dunderhead stupidity.' - Tony Rennell, The Daily Mail 

'Beevor tells a story that is more human and complex than what he calls "the great myth of heroic failure", a tale of vanity, hubris, occasional incompetence, human frailty and remarkable grit... In Beevor's hands, Arnhem becomes a study of national character.' - Ben Macintyre, The Times

'Antony Beevor's magnificent account... Beevor's skill lies in his ability to recreate the tumultuous brutality of battle... With stark honesty, Beevor describes the terrible panoply.' - Gerard De Groot, The Times

'The analysis he has produced of the disaster is forensic. Aficionados of military history will revel in Beevor's microscopic detail, with every skirmish given its rightful place... Beevor's prodigious research has nevertheless unearthed many treasures, particularly his record of the sufferings of Dutch civilians who risked their necks by nursing wounded allied soldiers.' - Giles Milton, The Sunday Times

'Complete mastery of both the story and the sources. The beauty is in the details... This gripping book, with its tightly focused timescale and subject matter, shows him once again at his very best.' - Keith Lowe, The Literary Review 

'Our greatest chronicler of the Second World War ... The drama of manoeuvre and counter-thrust, the courage and cowardice of soldier and civilian, the follies and vanities of commanders, which are especially rich in this story, are deployed with colour and humanity. His fans will love it.' - Robert Fox, The Evening Standard

'As Antony Beevor showed in Stalingrad, he is a master of his craft as a military historian... We have here a definitive account of one of the most painful episodes of the Second World War.' - Piers Paul Read, The Tablet

'It is, in short, a chapter of the Second World War that was crying out for the storytelling talents of Sir Antony Beevor, arguably the finest narrative historian of his generation. This is the result - and his many fans will not be disappointed... Beevor's particular skill is his ability to unearth new sources that articulate the experience of war felt by ordinary people: soldiers and civilians, men and women... Beevor has produced another superb book, tirelessly researched and beautifully written, that will long be the benchmark for this subject.' - Saul David, The Daily Telegraph

'Beevor's superlative new book... Arnhem sees him return to Stalingrad form. Forensic is too soft a word to describe the breadth of detail he brings.' - Marco Giannangel, The Daily Express

'The compressed time scale and limited strategic scope of Market Garden ideally suit the author's testimony-rich approach... Beevor is a highly accomplished architect of what the American literary scholar Samuel Hynes calls 'battlefield gothic': the nightmarish horrors and absurdities of combat' - Daniel Todman, The Wall Street Journal