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Hastings, Max.
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World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns
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Hastings, Max.
World War, 1939-1945.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns
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Inferno
: the
world
at
war
,
1939-1945
/ Max Hastings.
by
Hastings, Max.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Call #:
940.54 H358i
Subjects
World
War
,
1939-1945
.
World
War
,
1939-1945
-- Campaigns
ISBN:
9780307273598
0307273598
Edition:
1st United States ed.
Description:
xx, 729 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
Notes:
Originally published: London : HarperPress, 2010.
"This is a Borzoi Book"--t.p. verso.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Poland betrayed -- No peace, little
war
-- Blitzkriegs in the west -- Britain alone -- The Mediterranean -- Barbarossa -- Moscow saved, Leningrad starved -- America embattled -- Japan's season of triumph -- Swings of fortune -- The British at sea -- The furnace: Russia in 1942 -- Living with
war
-- Out of Africa -- The bear turns: Russia in 1943 -- Divided empires -- Asian fronts -- Italy: high hopes, sour fruits --
War
in the sky -- Victims -- Europe becomes a battlefield -- Japan: defying fate -- Germany besieged -- The fall of the Third Reich -- Japan prostrate -- Victors and vanquished.
Summary:
A monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of
World
War
II, and its deeply personal consequences. Hastings simultaneously traces the major developments and puts them into real human context. He also explores some of the darker and less explored regions of the
war
's penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944.
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