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World War Two

A Graphic Account of the Greatest and Most Terrible Event in Human History (All You Need to Know)

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World War Two

By: Sir Max Hastings
Narrated by: Jon Connell
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Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history. Within the vast compass of the struggle, some individuals scaled summits of courage and nobility, while others plumbed depths of evil, in a fashion that compels the awe of posterity.

Among citizens of modern democracies to whom serious hardship and collective peril are unknown, the tribulations which hundreds of millions endured between 1939 and 1945 are almost beyond comprehension. Hastings tells the story of the war in a clear and compelling narrative, ranging across a vast canvas from the agony of Poland in 1939 and the horrors of the Soviet front to the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan in August 1945.

This is a book which shows vividly what war meant for individuals from Allied soldiers, sailors, and airmen, to SS killers, to civilians caught up in the war, like British housewives who endured the Blitz and the citizens of Leningrad who suffered through a siege of almost unimaginable horror.

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Once again Max Hastings brings together all of the theatres of world war 2 in a very excellent style.
This book should be read by school did the corners to let them know how and why older generations still read about that war.
The narration was excellent and the content deeply understood by those of us both at the very end of the war like me(1944).
I think Max Hastings is one of the best war historians of modern times

Surely a brilliant synopsis of the second world

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If there is better, I have yet to find it. It should be essential listening to today’s generation.

Brilliant

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I am a great follower of Max Hastings,however the presentation of this work does it no favours.
It might present itself as a book of “Basic” facts,however it sounds like it was narrated in a WC,and that the narrator was rushing to catch a bus. It was read so fast in places it lost its way.
I’m sure there was repetition of some passages,but that might just have been my brain trying to keep up!
A tad disappointed.

Rushed and Tinny.

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