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What was it like to live through the Second World War? In this universally acclaimed book, one of our greatest living journalists and historians Max Hastings sets out to answer this question with an immensely powerful portrayal of the triumphs and tragedies of ordinary people, both military and civilian. He explores both the meaning of the conflict for its participants and the bigger picture. He argues that the Nazis displayed ‘stunning incompetence’ in the conduct of the war and that the navies of the UK and the US were the outstanding fighting services.
Hastings is the author of more than 20 books, many of them about the Second World War. He is a former editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph and former editor of the London Evening Standard.

‘This is the book he was born to write: a work of staggering scope and erudition, narrated with supreme fluency and insight, it is unquestionably the best single-volume history of the war ever written’ – Dominic Sandbrook, The Sunday Times