![]() ![]() ![]() On almost every page there is memorable and arresting material from interviews, diaries, letters, memoirs and personal documents of many kinds. “Inferno” offers an account of the war that concentrates on the lived experience of the men and women who took part in it. ![]() Hastings has a sober, unromantic and realistic view of battle that puts him into a different category from the armchair generals whose gung-ho, schoolboy attitude to war fills the pages of a great majority of military histories.He writes with grace, fluency and authority. “Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945” sums up and surpasses all his previous publications: a new, original and necessary history, in many ways the crowning of a life’s work ![]()
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