World War Two
World War Two Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some…
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World War Two
Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of courage and nobility, while others plumbed depths of evil, in a fashion that compels the awe of posterity. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history.
Hastings tells the story of the war in a clear and compelling narrative, ranging across a vast canvas from the agony of Poland in 1939 and the horrors of the Soviet front to the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan in August 1945. Among citizens of modern democracies to whom serious hardship and collective peril are unknown, the tribulations which hundreds of millions endured between 1939 and 1945 are almost beyond comprehension. This is a book which shows vividly what war meant for