All Hell Let Loose

About the Book

This has been described as the book Hastings was born to write: the distillation of a lifetime’s scholarship in military history, including many previous studies of the Second World War. All Hell Let Loose is a truly global account, documenting Allies, Axis nations and colonial subjects alike. It gives due weight to the decisive Eastern Front in the European war, but also encompasses the horror of Japanese occupation in China, internecine slaughter in Yugoslavia and the catastrophic famine in Bengal. Even on familiar ground, Hastings frequently shocks with a fact or statistic – as with the revelation that the number of Russian troops killed by their own officers exceeded the entire number of British fatalities. The selection of pictures is as broad as the narrative, helping to fulfil his aim of showing the human face of the war. The vivid, haunting images range from armoured columns and battlefield scenes to the privations of Leningrad and victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. All are reproduced as full pages or double-page spreads.

About the Book

This has been described as the book Hastings was born to write: the distillation of a lifetime’s scholarship in military history, including many previous studies of the Second World War. All Hell Let Loose is a truly global account, documenting Allies, Axis nations and colonial subjects alike. It gives due weight to the decisive Eastern Front in the European war, but also encompasses the horror of Japanese occupation in China, internecine slaughter in Yugoslavia and the catastrophic famine in Bengal. Even on familiar ground, Hastings frequently shocks with a fact or statistic – as with the revelation that the number of Russian troops killed by their own officers exceeded the entire number of British fatalities. The selection of pictures is as broad as the narrative, helping to fulfil his aim of showing the human face of the war. The vivid, haunting images range from armoured columns and battlefield scenes to the privations of Leningrad and victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. All are reproduced as full pages or double-page spreads.

About the Book

This has been described as the book Hastings was born to write: the distillation of a lifetime’s scholarship in military history, including many previous studies of the Second World War. All Hell Let Loose is a truly global account, documenting Allies, Axis nations and colonial subjects alike. It gives due weight to the decisive Eastern Front in the European war, but also encompasses the horror of Japanese occupation in China, internecine slaughter in Yugoslavia and the catastrophic famine in Bengal. Even on familiar ground, Hastings frequently shocks with a fact or statistic – as with the revelation that the number of Russian troops killed by their own officers exceeded the entire number of British fatalities. The selection of pictures is as broad as the narrative, helping to fulfil his aim of showing the human face of the war. The vivid, haunting images range from armoured columns and battlefield scenes to the privations of Leningrad and victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. All are reproduced as full pages or double-page spreads.

About the Book

This has been described as the book Hastings was born to write: the distillation of a lifetime’s scholarship in military history, including many previous studies of the Second World War. All Hell Let Loose is a truly global account, documenting Allies, Axis nations and colonial subjects alike. It gives due weight to the decisive Eastern Front in the European war, but also encompasses the horror of Japanese occupation in China, internecine slaughter in Yugoslavia and the catastrophic famine in Bengal. Even on familiar ground, Hastings frequently shocks with a fact or statistic – as with the revelation that the number of Russian troops killed by their own officers exceeded the entire number of British fatalities. The selection of pictures is as broad as the narrative, helping to fulfil his aim of showing the human face of the war. The vivid, haunting images range from armoured columns and battlefield scenes to the privations of Leningrad and victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. All are reproduced as full pages or double-page spreads.

About the Book

This has been described as the book Hastings was born to write: the distillation of a lifetime’s scholarship in military history, including many previous studies of the Second World War. All Hell Let Loose is a truly global account, documenting Allies, Axis nations and colonial subjects alike. It gives due weight to the decisive Eastern Front in the European war, but also encompasses the horror of Japanese occupation in China, internecine slaughter in Yugoslavia and the catastrophic famine in Bengal. Even on familiar ground, Hastings frequently shocks with a fact or statistic – as with the revelation that the number of Russian troops killed by their own officers exceeded the entire number of British fatalities. The selection of pictures is as broad as the narrative, helping to fulfil his aim of showing the human face of the war. The vivid, haunting images range from armoured columns and battlefield scenes to the privations of Leningrad and victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. All are reproduced as full pages or double-page spreads.

About the Book

This has been described as the book Hastings was born to write: the distillation of a lifetime’s scholarship in military history, including many previous studies of the Second World War. All Hell Let Loose is a truly global account, documenting Allies, Axis nations and colonial subjects alike. It gives due weight to the decisive Eastern Front in the European war, but also encompasses the horror of Japanese occupation in China, internecine slaughter in Yugoslavia and the catastrophic famine in Bengal. Even on familiar ground, Hastings frequently shocks with a fact or statistic – as with the revelation that the number of Russian troops killed by their own officers exceeded the entire number of British fatalities. The selection of pictures is as broad as the narrative, helping to fulfil his aim of showing the human face of the war. The vivid, haunting images range from armoured columns and battlefield scenes to the privations of Leningrad and victims of the atomic bombing of Nagasaki. All are reproduced as full pages or double-page spreads.