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Ebook About 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. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives—an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. 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—of soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, some of whom resorted to cannibalism during the two-year siege; Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews—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.Hastings also illuminates some of the darker and less explored regions under the war’s penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland, during which the Finns fiercely and surprisingly resisted Stalin’s invading Red Army; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944, when at least one million people died in what turned out to be, in Nehru’s words, “the final epitaph of British rule” in India. 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.Book Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 Review :
I want to preface this review by saying that this is the first comprehensive WWII history book that I've read. I am not in a position to question Max Hastings' through-line on WWII history.There's a lot about this book that I liked, while there were some things that left me wanting more.To start with the positive, Max Hastings is a pretty good writer. At no point in reading the book did I feel like his style was getting in the way of communicating info. He maintains an almost conversational tone throughout the book.It's not uncommon in academia for historians to want to try to "objectively" lay out a history, and allow it to "speak for itself". Max Hastings is clearly a person with opinions and I appreciated reading what he had to say. Hastings has strong opinions about the effectiveness of various generals. He was not afraid to give his opinion about the efficacy of fighting certain battles. Hastings openly speculates, on myriad occasions, about whether, had an alternate decision been made, WWII may have played out in a different way. He willingly dives into the moral ambiguities of war. Hastings at times describes an almost post-moral world For example, Nazi Germany sought to enslave and commit genocide against the Jews, carried out an intentional campaign of starving the countries they conquered in order to keep German citizens fed, bombed British civilian targets, and initiated a campaign of battle against Russia that included starving Russians, raping and killing civilians, and killing untold numbers of Russian soldier POW's. With that context, how do you weigh the scales in the also atrocious, rape-filled conquest of Nazi Germany by Russia at the end of the war? Max Hastings even describes an instance where Russian soldiers located an old hospital outside of Berlin (Wedding) that housed 800 Jewish inmates "in desperate physical condition." The Russian soldiers raped the Jewish women. Hastings indicates that the Allies probably wouldn't have won WWII without Russia. At a minimum, had the Russians not fought the Germans as they had, the U.S. death toll of soldiers would have been innumerably greater.The glue holding this history together is Hastings well-curated dispersal of 1st person, largely contemporaneous accounts of people's involvement in different aspects of the war. Hastings book did leave me wanting in a few areas.First, while Hastings does briefly explain how the ghosts of WWI informed the hesitance of leaders to want to engage against Germany in WWII (and, ironically, created the circumstances that allowed for the flowering of another world war), he provides the reader with almost no information about post WWI life, and how Hitler was able to obtain and expand his power. I feel like I need to read another history book just to get a better grasp on this issue. The book contains little information on the culture of "appeasement" and the conditions that allowed that culture to take root in Europe after WWI.Second, I feel a bit ripped off in not getting a chapter on how the Nazi's/Hitler/Goebbel used propaganda to obtain and consolidate popular support in Germany prior to WWII and maintain it during the war. Hastings only dedicates a few sentences to this issue in his book. While I don't know a great deal about this issue, it seems to have played a major role in spurring the stalwartness of both Nazi soldiers and German civilians prior to and during the war, and helps to explain why the Nazi's continued to fight on, even when the writing was on the wall that they were going to lose.Third, the book feels a bit rushed towards the end. For example, Hastings provides some interesting and persuasive opinions about the U.S.'s use of the atom bomb on Japan. Yet he spends less than a page discussing the 2 actual atom bomb drops. While he catalogs the death toll, he does not describe the horrendous long-term physical tolls (radiation poisoning, increased cancer rate, etc) or environmental tolls of those drops. This omission seems a bit tone deaf to me, as, by this time in the book, Hastings had literally provided 100's of lengthy first-hand accounts of war and the aftermath of many less consequential military strikes.Fourth, the book did not seek to provide enough information regarding the aftermath of war. We learn very little about the Nuremberg trials or how decisions were made to attempt to bring Nazi's to justice. We do not learn how surviving European Jews navigated Europe and/or obtained the means to have Israel as a homeland and move there after the war. While a paragraph is devoted to Israel, it provides only the most perfunctory information. We receive very little information about the form that "truth and reconciliation" did or didn't take in Germany after the war. We do not learn how German and Japanese civilians navigated their lives in the aftermath of their devastating loss of the war. We do not receive any information about how WWII led to NATO, or how WWII informs the "world order" in the 21st century. We don't receive much information about the post-war partition of Europe or the implications of a divided Berlin for the post WWI world order. While I understand that each of those subjects could potentially be their own book, I think a 1 or 2 chapter summary of these issues would have improved the book a lot.When I was writing this review I was waffling a bit between a 3 and a 4. But, as someone new to this area of history, I think that Hasting's insights into the war bring it alive to the point where a 3 would be too low. I'm in my 80s and began reading about the War before I grew up and served in the Korean War. Over the years I've read, learned from and admired numerous book about WWII. This book is the best WWII history I've read in over 20 years. The breath of the war that it covers is extraordinary and greater than any other that I've read. Moreover, the author never fails to include individuals both from the military and civilian life and their words help to bring readers like me closer to them, to their achievements and their sufferings. I've never read another WWII book that covers almost all of the countries that fought or suffered during the war. 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