Max Hastings' study of the greatest and most terrible event in history continues in the second part of his epic book. There are vivid descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of ordinary people, in uniform and out of it, in an 'everyman's story'.
This volume includes the chapters:
- The Furnace: Russia in 1942,
- Living with War,
- Out of Africa,
- The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943,
- Divided Empires,
- Asian Fronts,
- Italy: High Hopes,
- Sour Fruits,
- War in the Sky,
- Victims,
- Europe Becomes a Battlefield,
- Japan: Defying Fate,
- Germany Besieged,
- The Fall of the Third Reich,
- Japan Prostrate,
- Victors and Vanquished. Concludes the narrative started in Volume 1.