All Hell Let Loose. The World at War 1939-1945

London England: HarperPress. Fine/Near Fine. 2011. First Edition. Cloth. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" Tall Octavo 9780007338092 Hardcover Hardcover. First Edition. All Hell Let Loose. The World at War 1939-1945. 9780007338092. Shelf wear to top edge of D/J. This is a study of the greatest and most terrible event in history, which shows its impact upon hundreds of millions of people around the world - soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the city's two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews.l Reflecting Max Hasting's thirty-five years of research on the Second World War, this book describes the course of events during the war, but focuses chiefly upon human experience, which varied immensely from campaign to campaign, cintinent to cntinents. Hastings emphasises the Russian front, where more than ninety per cent of all German soldiers who perished met their fare. He argues that, while Hitler's army often fought in battles brilliantly well, the Nazis conducted their war effort with 'stunning incompentence'. He suggests that the Royal Nacy and US Navy were their countries; oustnadingf fighting services, while the industrial contribution of the United States was much more important to Allied vistory than that of the US Army. This is 'everyman's story. It is an attempt to answer the question: 'What was the Second World War like?' and also an overview of the big pictuee. Max Hastings employs the technique which has made many of his previous books best-sellers, combining top-down analysis and bottom-up testimony to explore the meaning of this vast conflict both for its participants and for posterity. Illustrated. 748 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. Academic and Scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Educational Reference Literature.) .