World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history.
And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjects to focus on when consideri.
Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the conflict is now a lived memory for only a few.
It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades.
It was both global in extent and total in character.
World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history