Inferno - Max Hastings [1]
Ill.13 Starving man with bread ration in Leningrad, 1941–42. (akg-images)
Ill.14 German troops on the Russian front, winter 1941. (AP Photo/Press Association)
Ill.15 Japanese troops on Bataan, c. 1942. (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, Washington D.C.)
Ill.16 Indian refugees escaping from Burma, January 1942. (George Rodger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Ill.17 American prisoners in the Philippines, May 1942. (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.: 127-N-114541)
Ill.18 Crew abandoning USS Lexington, Battle of the Coral Sea, May 1942. (AP Photo/Press Association)
Ill.19 Japanese soldiers killed on Guadalcanal, August 1942. (AP Photo/Press Association)
Ill.20 Australian troops carrying a wounded comrade to a dressing station on Papua New Guinea, December 1943. (AP Photo/Press Association)
Ill.21 HMS Vansittart on convoy escort duty in the Arctic, February 1943. (AP Photo/Press Association)
Ill.22 Survivors of a U-boat sunk in the North Atlantic, April 1943. (Photo by Jack January/USCG Historian’s Office)
Ill.23 WRENS wheeling a torpedo alongside a submarine at Portsmouth, September 1943. (Imperial War Museum A 19471)
Ill.24 Chinese foot soldiers, August 1945. (Jack Wilkes/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Ill.25 German grenadier during the retreat from the Soviet Union, 1943–44. (Keystone/Getty Images)
Ill.26 The Soviet Union, 1943. (© The Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk [RGAKFD]/N. Asnina)
Ill.27 Women riveters in an American dockyard, 1942. (CORBIS)
Ill.28 Twelve-year-old mill operator at the Perm Engine-Building Works, Soviet Union, 1943. (ITAR-TASS)
Ill.29 The Red Army advances. (© The Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk [RGAKFD]/Minkevich collection)
Ill.30 Drawing by Zainul Abedin from his Bengal Famine series, 1943. (Courtesy of Zainul Abedin)
Ill.31 GI feeding an orphan in Italy, c. 1944. (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.: 208-AA-240C-3)
Ill.32 Burial at sea for officers and men of USS Intrepid, Leyte Gulf, November 1944. (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.: 80-G-468912)
Ill.33 Pilot escaping the cockpit of a burning Hellcat fighter, September 1944. (AP Photo/U.S. Navy/Press Association)
Ill.34 A British bomber crew returns from a raid on Germany.
Ill.35 A collaborator having her head shaved in a town near Paris, c. 1944. (U.S. National Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.: 111-SC-193318)
Ill.36 Japanese family hiding in a cave on Saipan, June 1944. (U.S. Marine Corps/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Ill.37 British soldier in Burma, November 1944. (Imperial War Museum SE 564)
Ill.38 Medics removing a wounded U.S. soldier from the battlefield near Brest, Normandy, August 1944. (AP Photo/Press Association)
Ill.39 Paratrooper preparing for the assault on Arnhem, September 1944. (Airborne Assault Museum)
Ill.40 Dutch child during the “Hongerwinter” of 1944–45. (© Marius Meijboom/Nederlands Fotomuseum)
Ill.41 Two teenage German soldiers captured on the Rhine, March 1945. (Mirrorpix)
Ill.42 Russian artillery on the Oder–Neisse front, April 1945.
Ill.43 U.S. troops at Ohrdruf concentration camp, April 1945. (AP Photo/Byron H. Rollins/Press Association)
Ill.44 U.S. Marines on Iwo Jima, March 1945. (AP Photo/U.S. Marine Corps/Press Association)
Ill.45 A mother and child among the ruins of Hiroshima. (Alfred Eisenstadt/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Maps
The Polish Campaign
The Finnish Campaign
The Invasion of Norway
The Last Phase of the 1940 French Campaign
The Invasion of Greece
The 1942–43 Advance of Eighth Army
The German Winter Offensives, 1941
The Pacific Theatre
The Battle of the Coral Sea
The Battle of Midway
The Russians Encircle Hitler’s Sixth Army
The Russians Exploit Victory at Kursk
Russian Advances Across Ukraine
The 1943 Landings in Italy
The 1944 Thrust into Poland
The Allied Breakout from Normandy
The 1945 Western