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Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe
Sir Max Hastings
A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling and also deeply moving account seeks to explain both how Europe plunged into what was then called ‘The Great War’, what befell the millions of people of many nations caught up in the first months on the battlefield and as civilian victims.‘All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945’: This is ‘everyman’s story’ of 1939-45 from a host of viewpoints across the world- British fighter pilots and Russians tanker crew, Chinese peasants and French housewives, American naval gunners and Italian partisans. Here, with an extraordinary blend of top-down and bottom-up testimony is Hastings’s acclaimed answer to the question ‘what was World War II like?’
Max Hastings Two-Book Collection:
All Hell Let Loose
Catastrophe
Contents
Cover (#u6ddcf429-2594-5f3c-93c1-a08c02d802c7)
Title Page (#u39a08338-08b4-52e1-bd19-a676117b9df9)
All Hell Let Loose (#u126e269c-02db-5d47-add4-46b13034892e)
Catastrophe (#u8ab8ecde-ff14-505c-8004-0fe348d4993c)
A Note on the Author (#u0d5cfc4f-d9f6-5edd-9503-9cd29f6a11d3)
By the Same Author (#ua48f0f50-5fbb-5a5e-9a17-a3b010cf70c0)
From the Reviews of (#u138219f8-2882-5ecc-8a41-78a9b1f8027e)
Copyright (#u0122c6d8-dbcb-5821-a0ba-b9e85438ba16)
About the Publisher (#u3e1b941e-eb6b-5e2f-9b81-d082d3118216)
Max Hastings
All Hell Let Loose
The World at War 1939–45
Dedication
TO MICHAEL SISSONS,
for thirty years a princely agent,
counsellor and friend
Contents
MAIN CONTENTS (#ulink_6616f7e6-3c9a-5837-ba30-e5a5d6f8bde9)
Cover (#ulink_878d120d-a9d1-52d8-b4d7-ebd492c45e85)
Title Page
Dedication
List of Maps
Introduction
1 Poland Betrayed
2 No Peace, Little War
3 Blitzkriegs in the West
1 Norway
2 The Fall of France
4 Britain Alone
5 The Mediterranean
1 Mussolini Gambles
2 A Greek Tragedy
3 Sandstorms
6 Barbarossa
7 Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved
8 America Embattled
9 Japan’s Season of Triumph
1 ‘I Suppose you’ll Shove the Little Men Off’
2 The ‘White Route’ from Burma
10 Swings of Fortune
1 Bataan
2 The Coral Sea and Midway
3 Guadalcanal and New Guinea
11 The British at Sea
1 The Atlantic
2 Arctic Convoys
3 The Ordeal of Pedestal
12 The Furnace: Russia in 1942
13 Living with War
1 Warriors
2 Home Fronts
3 A Woman’s Place
14 Out of Africa
15 The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943
16 Divided Empires
1 Whose Liberty?
2 The Raj: Unfinest hour
17 Asian Fronts
1 China
2 Jungle-Bashing and Island-Hopping
18 Italy: High Hopes, Sour Fruits
1 Sicily
2 The Road to Rome
3 Yugoslavia
19 War in the Sky
1 Bombers
2 Targets
20 Victims
1 Masters and Slaves
2 Killing Jews
21 Europe Becomes a Battlefield
22 Japan: Defying Fate
23 Germany Besieged
24 The Fall of the Third Reich
1 Budapest: In the Eye of the Storm
2 Eisenhower’s Advance to the Elbe
3 Berlin: The Last Battle
25 Japan Prostrate
26 Victors and Vanquished
Picture Section
Notes and References
Bibliography
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgements
Maps
The Polish Campaign (#ulink_c7e1de1d-35ee-5066-987b-26d3be30d3aa)
The Finnish Campaign
The Invasion of Norway
The Last Phase of the 1940 French Campaign
The Invasion of Greece
The German Winter Offensives 1941
The Pacific Theatre
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway
