Full name: All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

Author: Max Hastings Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Amazon Goodreads ISBNs: 9780307475534 0307475530

Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military HistoryA New York Times Notable BookFrom 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 people--of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad--Hastings 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. Similar books: Wartime by Paul Fussell History of the Second World War by B. H. Liddell Hart The Second World War by Antony Beevor The Guns at Last Light by Rick Atkinson The Second World Wars by Victor Davis Hanson Why The Allies Won by Richard Overy Moral Combat by Michael Burleigh The Battle of Midway by Craig L. Symonds The Pacific by Hugh Ambrose Blood, Tears and Folly by Len Deighton The Second World War by John Keegan Day of Infamy by Walter Lord The Storm of War by Andrew Roberts Ardennes 1944 by Antony Beevor A Short History of World War II by James L. Stokesbury The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan 100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof by J. A. Rogers Dreamers and Deceivers by Glenn Beck Twenty Million Tons Under the Sea by Daniel V. Gallery History by Adam Hart-Davis