All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945
by:
Max Hastings (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780007338092 (0007338090)
Publish date: 2011
Publisher: Harper Press
Pages no: 748
Edition language: English
A very engaging history of the war, told from the perspective of the people (both soldiers and civilians) who lived through it. I have a hard time reading military books - too much talk about strategy leaves me cold, as I'm interested in the human history of things. This is the best book on WWII t...
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Extremely well written book that allows the reading to take a focused look at the suffering caused by all sides of the war, induced on both the military and civilian populaces. Numerous quotations taken from diaries of American, British, German, Japanese, Russian, etc. populaces really bring all th...
"The World at War 1939-1945" states the subtitle of this mastodontic book by the British historian and former war correspondent Max Hastings.And there is little doubt that the 675 pages of "All Hell Let Loose", also known as "Inferno" for the US audience, should be enough to deliver a thorough accou...
An attempt to get at the more personal and less well known sides of ww2. Mostly successful. The wealth of quotes, letters and diaries are fascinating, and the book was most interesting, to me at least, when in stayed in that sphere, trying to examine the feelings, loyalties and opinions of ordinary ...
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