Inferno - Max Hastings [475]
Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45
Winston’s War: Churchill, 1940–1945
COUNTRYSIDE WRITING
Outside Days
Scattered Shots
Country Fair
ANTHOLOGY (EDITED)
The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes
Illustrations
Poles catch a first glimpse of the Luftwaffe (Illustration Credits Ill.1)
Poland: the occupiers confront the occupied (Illustration Credits Ill.2)
Finnish “ghost soldiers” (Illustration Credits Ill.3)
A Russian, frozen in death (Illustration Credits Ill.4)
Norway invaded (Illustration Credits Ill.5)
Dunkirk evacuated (Illustration Credits Ill.6)
Parisians watch the Germans march in (Illustration Credits Ill.7)
Coventry, November 1940 (Illustration Credits Ill.8)
British gunners in North Africa (Illustration Credits Ill.9)
A German entertains a Frenchwoman who has discovered the virtues of collaboration (Illustration Credits Ill.10)
A German advances the Final Solution (Illustration Credits Ill.11)
Wartime food meant different things to different peoples. In America (above) a family celebrates Thanksgiving 1942, in a belligerent nation where hunger remained unknown (Illustration Credits Ill.12)
A besieged Leningrader with his bread ration (Illustration Credits Ill.13)
A German discovers Russia’s winter (Illustration Credits Ill.14)
Victors celebrate at Bataan (Illustration Credits Ill.15)
Indian refugees on the flight from Burma that killed uncounted thousands (Illustration Credits Ill.16)
American prisoners in the Philippines (Illustration Credits Ill.17)
War in the Pacific: Lexington’s crew abandon ship during the Battle of the Coral Sea (Illustration Credits Ill.18)
Japanese dead on Guadalcanal (Illustration Credits Ill.19)
Australians evacuate a casualty during the struggle on Papua New Guinea’s Kokoda Trail (Illustration Credits Ill.20)
Chipping ice on an Arctic convoy (Illustration Credits Ill.21)
Survivors of a sunken U-boat huddle aboard an American warship during the Battle of the Atlantic (Illustration Credits Ill.22)
WRENS—Women’s Royal Navy Service—push out a submarine torpedo for loading. Britain mobilised a larger proportion of its female population for war service than any other nation save the Soviet Union. (Illustration Credits Ill.23)
Some of Chiang Kai-shek’s unhappy soldiers, of whom more than a million died in their 1937–45 struggle against the Japanese (Illustration Credits Ill.24)
A retreating German on the Eastern Front (Illustration Credits Ill.25)
Collateral damage: the Soviet Union in 1943 (Illustration Credits Ill.26)
Women riveters in an American dockyard (Illustration Credits Ill.27)
A twelve-year-old Russian worker at the Perm aero-engine factory (Illustration Credits Ill.28)
The Red Army advances (Illustration Credits Ill.29)
One of Zainul Abedin’s sketches from life—and death—of victims of the 1943–44 Bengal famine (Illustration Credits Ill.30)
Italians with one of their would-be liberators (Illustration Credits Ill.31)
Crewmen of the U.S. carrier Intrepid bury comrades at sea (Illustration Credits Ill.32)
A Hellcat pilot quits his cockpit after a flight-deck mishap (Illustration Credits Ill.33)
Temporary reprieve: a British bomber crew returns from a raid on Germany during the strategic air offensive which killed more than half of the RAF aircrew who took part (Illustration Credits Ill.34)
The price of collaboration: a street scene in liberated France (Illustration Credits Ill.35)
A Japanese family on Saipan encounter their first American (Illustration Credits Ill.36)
One of Slim’s Bren gunners in Burma (Illustration Credits Ill.37)
Recovering wounded in France (Illustration Credits Ill.38)
Jumping into Arnhem (Illustration Credits Ill.39)
A Dutch child during his country’s “Hongerwinter,” 1944 (Illustration Credits Ill.40)
Hitler’s last human resorts: Wehrmacht prisoners at the Rhine, March 1945 (Illustration Credits Ill.41)
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