Antony Beevor has 9 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 5 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.8★ across 184 ratings. The most-rated is The Second World War.
The Second World War
Summary
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of World War II. His multi-award winning books have included Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin 1945. Now, in his newest and most ambitious book, he turns his focus to one of the bloodiest and most tragic events of the 20th century, The Second World War. In this searing narrative, which takes us from Hitler's invasion of Poland on September 1st, 1939 to V-J day on August 14th, 1945, and the war's aftermath, Beevor describes the conflict and its global reach - one that included every major power. The result is a dramatic and breathtaking single-volume history that provides a remarkably intimate account of the war that, more than any other, still commands attention and an audience. Thrillingly written and brilliantly researched, Beevor's grand and provocative account is destined to become the definitive work on this complex, tragic, and endlessly fascinating period in world history. It confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank.
©2012 Antony Beevor (P)2012 Hachette Audio
The Fall of Berlin 1945
Summary
The Red Army had much to avenge when it finally reached the frontiers of the Third Reich in January 1945. Frenzied by their terrible experiences with Wehrmacht and SS brutality, they wreaked havoc - tanks crushing refugee columns, mass rape, pillage, and unimaginable destruction. Hundreds of thousands of women and children froze to death or were massacred; more than seven million fled westward from the fury of the Red Army. It was the most terrifying example of fire and sword ever known. Antony Beevor has reconstructed the experiences of those millions caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich's final collapse. The Fall of Berlin is a terrible story of pride, stupidity, fanaticism, revenge, and savagery, yet it is also one of astonishing endurance, self-sacrifice, and survival against all odds.
©2002 Antony Beevor and Artemis Cooper (P)2002 Isis Audio Books
The Battle of Arnhem
Summary
The prizewinning historian and internationally best-selling author of D-Day reconstructs the devastating airborne battle of Arnhem in this gripping new account. On September 17, 1944, General Kurt Student, the founder of Nazi Germany's parachute forces, heard the groaning roar of airplane engines. He went out onto his balcony above the flat landscape of southern Holland to watch the air armada of Dakotas and gliders, carrying the legendary American 101st and 82nd Airborne Divisions and the British 1st Airborne Division. Operation Market Garden, the plan to end the war by capturing the bridges leading to the Lower Rhine and beyond, was a bold concept, but could it have ever worked? The cost of failure was horrendous, above all for the Dutch who risked everything to help. German reprisals were pitiless and cruel, and lasted until the end of the war. Antony Beevor, using often overlooked sources from Dutch, American, British, Polish, and German archives, has reconstructed the terrible reality of the fighting, which General Student called "The Last German Victory." Yet The Battle of Arnhem, written with Beevor's inimitable style and gripping narrative, is about much more than a single dramatic battle - it looks into the very heart of war.
©2018 Antony Beevor (P)2018 Penguin Audio
D-Day
Summary
"Glorious, horrifying...D-Day is a vibrant work of history that honors the sacrifice of tens of thousands of men and women." (Time) Beevor's Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge is now available from Viking Books. Renowned historian Antony Beevor, the man who "single-handedly transformed the reputation of military history" (The Guardian) presents the first major account in more than 20 years of the Normandy invasion and the liberation of Paris. This is the first book to describe not only the experiences of the American, British, Canadian, and German soldiers, but also the terrible suffering of the French caught up in the fighting. Beevor draws upon his research in more than 30 archives in six countries, going back to original accounts and interviews conducted by combat historians just after the action. D-Day is the consummate account of the invasion and the ferocious offensive that led to Paris' liberation.
©2009 Anthony Beevor (P)2009 Penguin
Ardennes 1944
Summary
The prize-winning historian and best-selling author of D-Day and Stalingrad reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account.
On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched his "last gamble" in the snow-covered forests and gorges of the Ardennes in Belgium, believing he could split the Allies by driving all the way to Antwerp and forcing the Canadians and the British out of the war. Although his generals were doubtful of success, younger officers and NCOs were desperate to believe that their homes and families could be saved from the vengeful Red Army approaching from the east. Many were exultant at the prospect of striking back.
The Allies, taken by surprise, found themselves fighting two panzer armies. Belgian civilians abandoned their homes, justifiably afraid of German revenge. Panic spread even to Paris. While some American soldiers, overwhelmed by the German onslaught, fled or surrendered, others held on heroically, creating breakwaters that slowed the German advance.
The harsh winter conditions and the savagery of the battle became comparable to the Eastern Front. In fact, the Ardennes became the Western Front's counterpart to Stalingrad. There was terrible ferocity on both sides, driven by desperation and revenge, in which the normal rules of combat were breached. The Ardennes - involving more than a million men - would prove to be the battle that finally broke the back of the Wehrmacht.
In this deeply researched work, with striking insights into the major players on both sides, Antony Beevor gives us the definitive account of the Ardennes offensive that was to become the greatest battle of World War II.
©2015 Antony Beevor (P)2015 Penguin Audio
The Battle for Spain
Summary
The civil war that tore Spain apart between 1936 and 1939 and attracted liberals and socialists from across the world to support the cause against Franco was one of the most hard-fought and bitterest conflicts of the 20th century: a war of atrocities and political genocide and a military testing ground before WWII for the Russians, Italians and Germans, whose Condor Legion so notoriously destroyed Guernica. Antony Beevor's account narrates the origins of the Civil War and its violent and dramatic course from the coup d'etat in July 1936 through the savage fighting of the next three years which ended in catastrophic defeat for the Republicans in 1939. And he succeeds especially well in unravelling the complex political and regional forces that played such an important part in the origins and history of the war.
©2006 Antony Beevor (P)2011 Orion
Eric
Summary
Eric is the Discworld's only demonology hacker. Pity he's not very good at it. All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy: to be immortal, to rule the world, and have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him. The usual stuff. But instead of a tractable demon, Eric calls up Rincewind, the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and his extremely intractable and hostile travel accessory, the Luggage. With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) that he'd never been born.
©1997 Terry and Lyn Pratchett (P)1997 Corgi Audio
The Player Blackout: A Superhero LitRPG Adventure
Summary
In 2043, Capes Online is the biggest, most popular VRMMORPG in the world. With over one billion active players and counting, gamers can become brave Heroes or cunning Villains, their every choice determining their alignment. Everyone wants to play this game and almost everyone does. Except for 25-year-old police officer Nyle Maxwell, who can't log out. Killed in a car accident on his first day on the job, Nyle gets his mind uploaded to Capes Online to save his life. But the one way mind-to-game upload process means Nyle can never return to his physical body in the real world. Nor is he allowed to contact his friends and family outside the game or else he risks deletion by the secretive government organization that put him in the game in the first place. Things get even worse when a villain known as Dark Kosmos takes over Capes Online not long after Nyle's arrival. Trapping all of the players in the game and cutting off all contact with the real world, Dark Kosmos targets Nyle for death. Now Nyle must become a true superhero and save his fellow players from Dark Kosmos while adjusting to his new digital life. All of which would be much easier if he didn't have a hyperactive sidekick overly fond of puns or if he even wanted to be here in the first place.
©2019 Lucas Flint (P)2019 Lucas Flint
D-Day et la bataille de Normandie
Summary
Le Débarquement allié en Normandie, le 6 juin 1944, passe à juste titre pour un des grands tournants de la Seconde Guerre mondiale - à tel point que dans l'esprit de beaucoup de Français le reste de la guerre ne fut qu'une formalité. Or, il n'en est rien. Si le Débarquement fut un de ces moments où se forgent les légendes, la bataille qui s'ensuivit, connue sous le nom de bataille de Normandie, fut autrement plus longue, difficile et décisive. Antony Beevor révèle, pour la première fois, à quel point le désordre, l'improvisation, les erreurs stratégiques et tactiques, l'impréparation de leurs troupes faillirent coûter leur victoire aux Alliés. Seule leur écrasante supériorité aérienne leur permit de l'emporter - mais à quel prix, notamment en vies civiles françaises et en morts accidentelles dans leurs propres rangs ! Grâce à des archives inédites et aux debriefings des soldats américains sur le terrain, Antony Beevor nous livre une reconstitution entièrement nouvelle et à rebours des mythes dominants. Une immersion fascinante sur les plages du Débarquement et au sein des états-majors des différentes armées. TABLE DES MATIERES Chapitre 1 - La décision ; Chapitre 2 - Le poids de la croix de Lorraine ; Chapitre 3 - Surveillance sur la Manche ; Chapitre 4 - Le bouclage de la zone d'invasion ; Chapitre 5 - La nuit des parachutistes ; Chapitre 6 - La traversée de la Manche ; Chapitre 7 - Omaha ; Chapitre 8 - Utah Beach et les paras ; Chapitre 9 - Gold et Juno ; Chapitre 10 - Sword ; Chapitre 11 - La consolidation des têtes de pont ; Chapitre 12 - Échec à Caen ; Chapitre 13 - Villers-Bocage ; Chapitre 14 - Les Américains dans le Cotentin ; Chapitre 15 - Epsom ; Chapitre 16 - La bataille du Bocage ; Chapitre 17 - Caen et la colline du Calvaire ; Chapitre 18 - Ultime combat pour Saint-Lô ; Chapitre 19 - Goodwood ; Chapitre 20 - Le complot contre Hitler ; Chapitre 21 - Opération Cobra - la percée ; Chapitre 22 - Opération Cobra - la déferlante ; Chapitre 23 - La Bretagne et l'opération Bluecoat ; Chapitre 24 - La contre-offensive de Mortain ; Chapitre 25 - L'opération Totalize ; Chapitre 26 - Le marteau et l'enclume ; Chapitre 27 - Le piège meurtrier de la poche de Falaise ; Chapitre 28 - L'insurrection de Paris et la poussée vers la Seine ; Chapitre 29 - La libération de Paris ; Épilogue ; Remerciements.
©2009 Viking (Penguin) Calmann-Lévy (P)2020 Audiolb