Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe

Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe
Max Hastings

A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling and also deeply moving account seeks to explain both how Europe plunged into what was then called ‘The Great War’, what befell the millions of people of many nations caught up in the first months on the battlefield and as civilian victims.‘All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945’: This is ‘everyman’s story’ of 1939-45 from a host of viewpoints across the world- British fighter pilots and Russians tanker crew, Chinese peasants and French housewives, American naval gunners and Italian partisans. Here, with an extraordinary blend of top-down and bottom-up testimony is Hastings’s acclaimed answer to the question ‘what was World War II like?’

Max Hastings Two-Book Collection:

All Hell Let Loose

Catastrophe

Contents

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Title Page (#u39a08338-08b4-52e1-bd19-a676117b9df9)

All Hell Let Loose (#u126e269c-02db-5d47-add4-46b13034892e)

Catastrophe (#litres_trial_promo)

A Note on the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

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Max Hastings

All Hell Let Loose

The World at War 1939–45

Dedication

TO MICHAEL SISSONS,

for thirty years a princely agent,

counsellor and friend

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Cover (#litres_trial_promo)

Title Page

Dedication

List of Maps

Introduction

1 Poland Betrayed

2 No Peace, Little War

3 Blitzkriegs in the West

1 (#ulink_775e14f5-a6b9-50b3-abd3-c73d3ecf304d) Norway

2 (#ulink_c0344297-5fce-567a-8fa9-67b1c19d1a94) The Fall of France

4 Britain Alone

5 The Mediterranean

1 (#ulink_5c3c1294-714f-5009-a212-96099fda2108) Mussolini Gambles

2 (#ulink_e888e34e-2f93-5203-a43a-f2772796ed2f) A Greek Tragedy

3 (#ulink_553b0f1d-dff3-5b8c-b5d2-d2620b830239) Sandstorms

6 Barbarossa

7 Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved

8 America Embattled

9 Japan’s Season of Triumph

1 (#ulink_f6877718-0f21-5804-a00b-cc54af8e3ae9) ‘I Suppose you’ll Shove the Little Men Off’

2 (#ulink_b2742f72-e29c-5b31-b04a-710f98ddff5b) The ‘White Route’ from Burma

10 Swings of Fortune

1 (#ulink_9acd0740-c772-546e-a7ef-34dd946ce85f) Bataan

2 (#ulink_3b652440-520a-5eda-a1ab-eb5ca12ef9a1) The Coral Sea and Midway

3 (#ulink_f40f95cf-8986-54ae-a3e0-1d42b7852b63) Guadalcanal and New Guinea

11 The British at Sea