From one of our finest military historians, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 is a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences.
For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume history of the entire war.
Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people, Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. He simultaneously traces the major developments - Hitler's refusal to retreat from the Soviet Union until it was too late; Stalin's ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the German army; Churchill's leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941; Roosevelt's steady hand before and after the United States entered the war - and puts them in real human context.
Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently Retribution. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain's Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph and has received numerous British Press awards, including Journalist of the Year in 1982 and Editor of the Year in 1988.