Inferno - Max Hastings [0]
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2011 by Max Hastings
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hastings, Max.
Inferno : the world at war, 1939–1945 / by Max Hastings.
p. cm.
Originally published: London : HarperPress, 2010.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-0-307-95718-4
1. World War, 1939–1945. I. Title.
D743.H364 2011
940.54—dc22 2011013890
Jacket image: U.S. Marines blowing up cave connected to Japanese blockhouse on Iwo Jima, December 31, 1944, by W. Eugene Smith/Time Life Pictures/Getty Images
Jacket design by Jason Booher
v3.1
To Michael Sissons,
for thirty years a princely agent,
counsellor and friend
Contents
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Introduction
CHAPTER ONE Poland Betrayed
CHAPTER TWO No Peace, Little War
CHAPTER THREE Blitzkriegs in the West
1. Norway
2. The Fall of France
CHAPTER FOUR Britain Alone
CHAPTER FIVE The Mediterranean
1. Mussolini Gambles
2. A Greek Tragedy
3. Sandstorms
CHAPTER SIX Barbarossa
CHAPTER SEVEN Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved
CHAPTER EIGHT America Embattled
CHAPTER NINE Japan’s Season of Triumph
1. “I Suppose You’ll Shove the Little Men Off”
2. The “White Route” from Burma
CHAPTER TEN Swings of Fortune
1. Bataan
2. The Coral Sea and Midway
3. Guadalcanal and New Guinea
CHAPTER ELEVEN The British at Sea
1. The Atlantic
2. Arctic Convoys
3. The Ordeal of Pedestal
CHAPTER TWELVE The Furnace: Russia in 1942
CHAPTER THIRTEEN Living with War
1. Warriors
2. Home Fronts
3. A Woman’s Place
CHAPTER FOURTEEN Out of Africa
CHAPTER FIFTEEN The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943
CHAPTER SIXTEEN Divided Empires
1. Whose Liberty?
2. The Raj: Unfinest Hour
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN Asian Fronts
1. China
2. Jungle Bashing and Island Hopping
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN Italy: High Hopes, Sour Fruits
1. Sicily
2. The Road to Rome
3. Yugoslavia
CHAPTER NINETEEN War in the Sky
1. Bombers
2. Targets
CHAPTER TWENTY Victims
1. Masters and Slaves
2. Killing Jews
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Europe Becomes a Battlefield
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Japan: Defying Fate
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Germany Besieged
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR The Fall of the Third Reich
1. Budapest: In the Eye of the Storm
2. Eisenhower’s Advance to the Elbe
3. Berlin: The Last Battle
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Japan Prostrate
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX Victors and Vanquished
Acknowledgements
Notes and References
Bibliography
Index
Other Books by This Author
Illustrations
Illustrations
Ill.1 Poles catch a first glimpse of the Luftwaffe, September 1939. (Hulton Deutsch Collection/CORBIS)
Ill.2 SS, police and ethnic German auxiliaries conducting a search at Bydgoszcz in Poland, September 1939. (Instytut Pamieci Narodowej/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Ill.3 Finnish “ghost soldiers,” December 1939. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Ill.4 A Russian soldier frozen in death. Finland, March 1940. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Ill.5 German troops fighting near Haugsbygd, Norway, April 1940. (akg-images/Ullstein Bild)
Ill.6 Dunkirk evacuated, May–June 1940. (IAM/akg-images)
Ill.7 German troops enter Paris, 14 June 1940. (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.: 208-PP-10A-3)
Ill.8 Coventry after an air raid, November 1940. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
Ill.9 British artillery in action in the North African desert, January 1943. (Mirrorpix)
Ill.10 Frenchwoman and German official in occupied France, c. 1943. (Paul Almasy/akg-images)
Ill.11 Mass execution of Russian Jews by SS Einsatzgruppen D, c. 1942. (Library of Congress, Washington D.C.)
Ill.12 An American family celebrates