Informationen zum Autor Max Hastings Klappentext Paperback edition of Hastings's magisterial history of WWII, which shows the impact of the conflict upon hundreds of millions of people around the world: soldiers, sailors, airmen, housewives, farm workers, children and more. Researched over 35 years, it describes the course of events, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which varied immensely from campaign to campaign, continent to continent. 'No other general history of the war amalgamates so successfully the gut-wrenching personal details and the essential strategic arguments.' "The Times" Zusammenfassung 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..

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Max Hastings

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'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES

Zusammenfassung
'The best single-volume history of the war ever written' DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES