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Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945
by Max Hastings
If you're going to read one history of World War II, read this one.
It focuses more on the overall picture than any campaign, country, or battle, but does a marvelous picture of trying to view the whole. There's mercifully little on the major players and a refreshing focus on how people who weren't leading nations or armies viewed the war, with excerpts from letters, diaries, and so on.
It won't make you an expert, but you'll enjoy it and know a lot more than you do now.
It focuses more on the overall picture than any campaign, country, or battle, but does a marvelous picture of trying to view the whole. There's mercifully little on the major players and a refreshing focus on how people who weren't leading nations or armies viewed the war, with excerpts from letters, diaries, and so on.
It won't make you an expert, but you'll enjoy it and know a lot more than you do now.