Total War: The Causes and Courses of the Second World War (Volume 1: The Western Hemisphere)

The book and its companion second volume, now available in paperback for the first time, represent years of research; when Total War was first published in 1972 as a single volume, it was hailed by The Economist as "the best single-volume in English of the struggle that came to convulse the world," and by the Chicago Tribune Book World as "a splendid book, as good a one-volume hisotry of World War II as we are likely to get." In the expanded 1989 edition of this classic work, the authors enriched the text with a flood of official archives and personal memoirs released in recent years. In the first volume, Peter Calvocoressi draws on this new material to reexamine many old ideas about the war in Europe and North African; and introduces the full story of Ultra - the deciphering of high-grade German intelligence information.