- World War, 1939-1945, Weltkrieg, Andra världskriget 1939-1945, World War (1939-1945) fast (OCoLC)fst01180924
From one of our finest military historians, a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives -- an average of twenty-seven thousand a day.
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Epic, earnest, grave and classical in form.
- intimateepic
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
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- Author
- Max Hastings
- First published
- 2011
- Pages
- 799
- Publisher
- Vintage, Blackstone Audio, Inc., Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 4
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781455130283
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Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist and military historian, who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of *The Daily Telegraph*, and editor of the *Evening Standard*. He is also the author of numerous books, chiefly on defence matters, which have won several major awards. **Source**: [Max Hastings](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max_Hastings) on Wikipedia
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