![]() ![]() He points to the siege of Leningrad as an indicator to the ability of the Soviet Union to prevail. Hastings emphasises the brutality of the Stalinist regime with its ruthless contempt for human life, also of its own soldiers, which sustained the fight. The Red Army bore the brunt of the war against Hitler, even after D-Day, with horrendous losses. He makes clear that Britain, after courageously defying Hitler in the anxious months of 1940-41, played a starkly diminished role in the defeat of both Germany and Japan as the war proceeded. ![]() Using the techniques that served him so well in his earlier books on various aspects of the war, he now offers a fast-moving, highly readable survey of the entire war, in all its phases and on all fronts, in under 700 pages. ![]() Though the Second World War has been the subject of immense historical research, Max Hastings here demonstrates how much there is still to know. The unfinished business of the First World War and ushering in the Cold War, this most terrible of conflicts, costing more than 55 million lives and with unprecedented genocide at its centre, gave decisive shape to the bloodiest century in history. The farther the Second World War recedes into history, the more evident it becomes that it was the central and defining episode of the 20th century. New West End Company BRANDPOST | PAID CONTENT. ![]()
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