From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire conflict. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday peopleof soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of LeningradHastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.
Authors
Max Hastings
Additional Info
- Release Date: 2012-10-02
- Publisher: Vintage
- Format: Paperback
- ISBN: 9780307475534
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