Best viewed on a tablet, includes exclusive audio and video.
The special edition of Max Hastings’ magisterial chronicle of Europe in 1914. Explore the position of armies in detail. Search the timeline for the ultimate overview. Watch footage of the protagonists, battlefields and wartime cities. Hear an exclusive author interview.
A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children..
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From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history – World War II.
Max Hastings’s account of his family’s tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father’s most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.
