Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History A New York Times Notable Book From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century..
Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued.
Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people--of soldiers, sailors and airmen
British housewives and Indian peasants
SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad--Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the World at war.
Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire conflict.
For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war.
Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History A New York Times Notable Book From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences
