figaro 's review for:

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 by Max Hastings

4.0

---

Hastings sets out to write a history of WW2 that captures the human experience--the terror and agony of war--and that gives coverage of the lesser theaters and stories of the war, such as the experiences of occupied France and Poland, the civil war in Yugoslavia, the Burma campaigns, etc. He accomplishes both tasks.