Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

Winner of the Pritzker Prize for Military History
A New York Times Notable Book

From one of our finest military historians, 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 conflict. Through his strikingly detailed stories of everyday people--of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad--Hastings provides a singularly intimate portrait of the world at war. Remarkably informed and wide-ranging, Inferno is both elegantly written and cogently argued. Above all, it is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/02/2012
ISBN: 9780307475534
Pages: 729
Weight: 2.20lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.38w x 1.55d

Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 11/11/2012 pg. 52