Table of Contents

Introduction;Poland betrayed;Blitzkreigs in the West;Britain alone;Barbarossa;Moscow saved, Leningrad starved;America's march to war;Japan's season of triumph;The British at sea;Out of Africa;The bear turns: Russia in 1943;Italy: high hopes, sour fruits;War in the sky;Victims;Europe becomes a battlefield;Germany besieged;The fall of the Third Reich;Japan: defying fate;Victors and vanquished;

About the Author

Sir Max Hastings is a famed British journalist and military historian. Currently, he writes columns for the New York Review of Books, the Daily Mail, the Guardian, and the Sunday Times and is also the bestselling author of numerous history books on World War II, the Korean War, and the Falkland Islands.

Reviews

"Military strategies are crisply praised or condemned while Hastings delivers thumbnail verdicts on the major players." * Daily Mail * "The masterstroke of series editor Jolyon Connell lies in his enlistment of experts who maintain their literary verve and sharp opinions in short form." * Daily Mail *