PublishedHarper Collins, September 2011 |
ISBN9780007431205 |
FormatSoftcover, 768 pages |
Dimensions23.4cm × 15.3cm × 4.7cm |
The Second World War was an experience like no other, and the many men and women who lived through it struggled to find the words to describe what they faced. In this definitive, single-volume history, Max Hastings brings together the many realities that emerged from this period, touching on almost every country in the world.
There were some aspects of wartime experience that were virtually universal: fear and grief; the conscription of young men and women for new lives remote from their choice, and mass migration. Hastings charts these experiences, along with the numerous battles on land, at sea and in the air, all over the world, that form the greatest event in human history. Using a huge range of sources, including new material from Russia, Italy and Poland.
