World War II: A graphic account of the greatest and most terrible event in human history

Author:   Max Hastings
Publisher:   CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
ISBN:  

9781911187820


Pages:   128
Publication Date:   26 April 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of courage and nobility, while others plumbed depths of evil, in a fashion that compels the awe of posterity. Among citizens of modern democracies to whom serious hardship and collective peril are unknown, the tribulations which hundreds of millions endured between 1939 and 1945 are almost beyond comprehension. Hastings tells the story of the war in a clear and compelling narrative, ranging across a vast canvas from the agony of Poland in 1939 and the horrors of the Soviet front to the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan in August 1945. This is a book which shows vividly what war meant for individuals from allied soldiers, sailors and airmen, to SS killers, to civilians caught up in the war like British housewives who endured the Blitz and the citizens of Leningrad who suffered through a siege of almost unimaginable horror.

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Author:   Max Hastings
Publisher:   CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
Imprint:   CONNELL PUBLISHING LTD
ISBN:  

9781911187820


ISBN 10:   1911187821
Pages:   128
Publication Date:   26 April 2018
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us.

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Military strategies are crisply praised or condemned while Hastings delivers thumbnail verdicts on the major players. * Daily Mail * The masterstroke of series editor Jolyon Connell lies in his enlistment of experts who maintain their literary verve and sharp opinions in short form. * Daily Mail *


The masterstroke of series editor Jolyon Connell lies in his enlistment of experts who maintain their literary verve and sharp opinions in short form. * Daily Mail * Military strategies are crisply praised or condemned while Hastings delivers thumbnail verdicts on the major players. * Daily Mail *


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Sir Max Hastings is a famed British journalist and military historian. Currently, he writes columns for the New York Review of Books, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, and the Sunday Times and is also the bestselling author of numerous history books on World War II, the Korean War, and the Falkland Islands.

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