How long does it take to read The Second World War?
The Second World War by Antony Beevor takes about 17 hours 36 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 17 hours 36 minutes
A long haul
First published 2012. 960 pages, about 264,000 words.
36 days (about 6 weeks) at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 29 hours 20 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 17 hours 36 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 11 hours |
The page count is the median across 13 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Over the past two decades, Antony Beevor has established himself as one of the world's premier historians of WWII. 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 twentieth century, the Second World War. In this searing narrative that 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, and confirms once more that he is a military historian of the first rank. - Publisher.
