About Antony Beevor Sir Anthony Beevor is a British military historian born on 14 December 1946, a year and six months after the collapse of the Third Reich. Over the years, he has written history books regarding specific battles during World War II. The bestsellers are Stalingrad and The Fall of Berlin, 1945, released in […]
About the Author (Robert M. Citino) Robert Citino is an American military historian who, rather than call the Wehrmacht blitzkrieg “blitzkrieg,” stood on calling it “bewegungskreig.” He popularized this notion with his four books, starting with The German Way of War and ending with Wehrmacht’s Last Stand. All books published between 2005 and 2017 Chapter
Chapter 1 In this chapter, Citino makes it clear that in 1942, when the United States entered World War II, the US was strategically backward, especially in sharp contrast to the Germans. The United States positioned infantry first, then tanks behind; the author said the USA was stuck in old ways of war strategy. This
About the author Citino is a German military historian with a specialty in the Second World War. He has published multiple books on the German way of war, which has earned him numerous awards, including the Samuel Elliot Morison Prize in 2021. In his books, he has emphasized that Bewegungskrieg was the proper name for
About the Author (Robert Gerwarth) Robert Gerwarth is a historian of twentieth-century Europe with a particular focus on the First and Second World Wars. He holds an MA from Berlin’s Humboldt Universität and a DPhil from Oxford University, where he also spent three years as a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and a further two years
About Heinrich Fraenkel Heinrich Fraenkel was born in Poznan, Poland, on September 28, 1987. He did not fight in the First World War but was captured during the war and was put in a POW camp. This was where he developed his English language to a good standard. He lived most of his life in
About Roger Manvell Roger Manvell was born on October 10, 1909, and he lived until November 30, 1987. He was known for the propaganda films he created for Great Britain during the Second World War. For his biography about Hitler’s inner circle, he worked with Heinrich Fraenkel, who was a German Jew who had lived
About Antony Beevor Antony Beevor is a British military historian who had served in the British Army, notably the 11th Hussars. The 11th Hussars fought in the battle for Normandy in 1944, although without Sir Beevor, who later joined the regiment in 1967. Chapter 1: Who was the commander of the D-Day invasion? None of
Stalingrad by Antony Beevor is 145,438 words; I’ve summarized it to just 1,710 words, part by part and chapter by chapter. About Antony Beevor Anthony Beevor is a British military historian who has also served in the British military. He has written several books about major battles of World War II, which have been translated
From July 1944 to May 1945, The End covers all human factors that kept the Nazis in power even though it was certain they had failed the German nation. About the author Ian Kershaw is a British professor of history born in 1943. He has published over a dozen bestsellers on Hitler and Nazi-related topics,