...by Max Hastings
Short review for a big book: a huge one-volume history of WWII. In short: a global perspective of the most significant events, but with the everyday lives of military and civilian woven in. Harrowing, to say the least; sometimes disturbing and distressing. WWII isn't all Churchill and the tidy movement of troops.
Not a book to read at bedtime. Which is a caution: explicit descriptions of death, violence, destruction, with the explicit language also. But you emerge knowing why we must remember, and why we must prevent anything like it again.
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