An excellent audiobook, very ably read by Sean Barrett, whose contents would be better absorbed through reading the print and looking at the maps and diagrams...
Having said that, I still appreciated Beevor's account of the Allies' September 1944 push to cross the Rhine in the Netherlands and the resulting military failure and humanitarian crisis to which it contributed. He does a wonderful job interweaving technical details, military reports, and diary accounts of top military brass on both sides, ordinary soldiers, and Dutch civilians. While I am unlikely to retain much of the nuts and bolts detail, his accounts of the misery and courage of ordinary Dutch individuals as their occupied communities were briefly liberated only to be re-occupied won't be easily forgotten.
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