All Hell Let Loose

The Second World War acts as the last touchstone of heroism, resilience and barbarism within living memory. Capturing both epic sweep and human detail, Max Hastings’ All Hell Let Loose has been hailed as the definitive, single-volume account: authoritative, vivid, sceptical and humane. What makes it exceptional is the bottom up views and experiences of ordinary people, intermingled with set piece battle scenes and character portraits of legendary leaders: Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin. ‘All Hell Let Loose conveys the pity of the war and its immediate aftermath with scholarship and proper sympathy’ (The Guardian).

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