All Hell Let Loose
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A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in
history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War.
A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of
people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen, housewives,
farm workers and children.. Reflecting Max Hastings’s thirty-five
years of research on World War II, All Hell Let Loose describes the
course of events, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which
varied immensely from campaign to campaign, continent to
continent.The author emphasises the Russian front, where more than
90% of all German soldiers who perished met their fate. He argues
that, while Hitler’s army often fought its battles brilliantly
well, the Nazis conducted their war effort with ‘stunning
incompetence’. He suggests that the Royal Navy and US Navy were
their countries’ outstanding fighting services, while the
industrial contribution of the United States was much more
important to allied victory than that of the US Army.The book
ranges across a vast canvas, from the agony of Poland amid the
September 1939 Nazi invasion, to the 1943 Bengal famine, in which
at least a million people died under British rule- and British
neglect. Among many vignettes, there are the RAF’s legendary raid
on the Ruhr dams, the horrors of Arctic convoys, desert tank
combat, jungle clashes. Some of Hastings’s insights and judgements
will surprise students of the conflict, while there are vivid
descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of ordinary
people, in uniform and out of it.‘The cliché is profoundly true’,
he says. ‘The world between 1939 and 1945 saw some human beings
plumb the depths of baseness, while others scaled the heights of
courage and nobility’. This is ‘everyman’s story’, an attempt to
answer the question: ‘What was the Second World War like ?’, and
also an overview of the big picture.Max Hastings employs the
technique which has made many of his previous books best-sellers,
combining top-down analysis and bottom-up testimony to explore the
meaning of this vast conflict both for its participants and for
posterity.
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Max Hastings ,
HarperCollins Publishers
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Max Hastings,
HarperCollins Publishers
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