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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945 by Max Hastings

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February 2012, no. 338

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945 by Max Hastings

HarperCollins, $32.99 pb, 768 pp, 9780007431205

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945 by Max Hastings

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February 2012, no. 338

It is a brave undertaking to write a single-volume history of World War II. As Max Hastings notes, we already have many good books in this category: Weinberg, A World At Arms: A Global History of World War II (1994); Calvocoressi, Wint, and Pritchard, Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War (1989); Millett and Murray, A War To Be Won: Fighting the Second World War (2000); and Hastings might have mentioned Parker’s Struggle For Survival: The History of the Second World War (1989) and Ellis’s Brute Force: Allied Strategy and Tactics in the Second World War (1990). He was too late to notice Andrew Roberts’s latest contribution.

Robin Prior reviews 'All Hell Let Loose' by Max Hastings

All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939–1945

by Max Hastings

HarperCollins, $32.99 pb, 768 pp, 9780007431205

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