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Ardennes 1944 ought to prompt some careful reflection on our modern age. In august 1942, hitlers huge sixth army reached the city that bore stalins name. Antony beevor is the renowned author of stalingrad, which won the samuel johnson prize, the wolfson prize for history and the hawthornden prize for literature, and berlin, which received the first longmanhistory today trustees award. The book, which comes out this month, is a natural progression from his earlier history of dday. I recently read and really enjoyed d day through german eyes the hidden story of june 6th 1944 and that made me want to read more about d day. He has published several popular histories on the second world war and the 20th.
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