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Inferno : the world at war, 1939-45 / Max Hastings.

Hastings, Max.
2011
940.54 H358i 2011
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Title
Inferno : the world at war, 1939-45 / Max Hastings.
Author
Hastings, Max.
Edition
1st. U.S. ed.
ISBN
9780307273598
0307273598
Imprint
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Language
English
Description
xx, 729 p., [48] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Call Number
940.54 H358i 2011
System Control No.
(OCoLC)707235871
(OCoLC)707235871
Summary
A monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II, and its deeply personal consequences. Hastings simultaneously traces the major developments and puts them into real human context. He also explores some of the darker and less explored regions of the war's penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944.
Note
Originally published: London : HarperPress, 2011.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 691-699) and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Poland betrayed
No peace, little war
Blitzkriegs in the west
Britain alone
The Mediterranean
Barbarossa
Moscow saved, Leningrad starved
America embattled
Japan's season of triumph
Swings of fortune
The British at sea
The furnace: Russia in 1942
Living with war
Out of Africa
The bear turns: Russia in 1943
Divided empires
Asian fronts
Italy: high hopes, sour fruits
War in the sky
Victims
Europe becomes a battlefield
Japan: defying fate
Germany besieged
The fall of the Third Reich
Japan prostrate
Victors and vanquished.
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