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A thorough and engrossing narrative of the eight months after D-Day that finally ended the Second World War, ARMAGEDDON follows Max Hastings's previous OVERLORD: D-DAY AND THE BATTLE FOR NORMANDY, 1944. Hastings has written a highly readable account of the dramatic shifts in power and alliances, not the least of which was the decline in status of England, and the rise of America as the supreme military power. Compelling, too, was the realization that Russia was to be the next enemy, and that the world map was to be redrawn along lines to be determined at the war's end. Essentially a military history, ARMAGEDDON examines the personalities and changing fortunes of Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin, and Hitler. Using deep research and his mastery of documentary evidence and archival material, Hastings brings to the fore great achievements and acts of heroism as well as miscues, weaknesses, ambitions, rivalries, hurt feelings, base behavior, and behavior for which there appears to be no explanation. What comes through is the loss of life on all sides, of both soldiers and civilians, and the awesome destruction brought by the the war's protracted ending.
| Size | | Length: | 584 pages | | Height: | 5.3 in | | Width: | 8.0 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 21.6 oz |
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