The Storm of War - Andrew Roberts [1]
14 Pilots of 87 Squadron scrambling to their Hurricanes (The Art Archive/Imperial War Museum Photo Archive IWM)
15 Hitler and Goebbels at the Berghof, 1940 (Mary Evans Picture Library)
16 Operation Barbarossa, summer 1941 (ullstein bild/Topfoto)
17 Operation Typhoon stuck in atrocious mud, October 1941 (Robert Hunt Picture Library)
18 German soldiers surrendering to Russians, late 1941 (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
19 US Navy Douglas Dauntless dive-bombers at the battle of Midway, early 6 June 1942 (National Archives/courtesy Armchair General ®)
20 USS Yorktown at the battle of Midway, 4 June 1942 (National Archives/courtesy Armchair General ®)
21 Generals Sir Claude Auchinleck and Sir Archibald Wavell in the Western Desert, 1941 (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
22 General Harold Alexander in Tunisia, early 1943 (Popperfoto/Getty Images)
23 General Erwin Rommel at Tobruk, June 1942 (Popperfoto/Getty Images)
24 Soldiers of the 9th Australian Division at the battle of El Alamein (Pictures Collection, State Library of Victoria)
25 Jews undergoing ‘selection’ for work details at Auschwitz-Birkenau, late May 1944 (USHMM, courtesy of Yad Vashem – Public Domain. The views or opinions expressed in this book and the context in which the images are used, do not necessarily reflect the views or policy of, nor imply approval or endorsement by, The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum)
26 Corpses at the Dachau concentration camp, 29 April 1945 (Getty Images)
27 Destruction in Stalingrad, late 1942 (Getty Images)
28 Russian artillery in Stalingrad, early 1943 (RIA Novosti/Topfoto)
29 President Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and others at the Casablanca Conference, January (Getty Images)
30 General Charles de Gaulle and General Henri Giraud in Algiers, 30 May 1943 (Bettmann/Corbis)
31 A convoy of merchantmen crossing the Atlantic, June 1943 (The Mariners’ Museum/Corbis)
32 The captain of a U-boat at his periscope (Cody Images)
33 The battle of Kursk, July 1943 (Cody Images)
34 Russian soldiers pass a burning Soviet tank at Kursk (Getty Images)
35 General Sir William Slim in Burma, 1944 (Getty Images)
36 Major General Orde Wingate (Bettmann/Corbis)
37 General Tomoyuki Yamashita (Getty Images)
38 General George S. Patton Jr (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
39 General Mark Clark in Rome, 5 June 1944 (Getty Images)
40 D-Day, 08.40 hours, 6 June (Imperial War Museum, B 5103)
41 American troops behind anti-tank obstacles on Omaha Beach (Topfoto)
42 Mussolini, Hitler, Göring and Ribbentrop two days after the 20 July 1944 Bomb (AP/PA Photos)
43 General Dwight D. Eisenhower and General Montgomery, June 1944. (Bettmann/Corbis)
44 Russian infantry in Belorussia during Operation Bagration, June 1944 (ullstein bild/Topfoto)
45 The Ardennes Offensive, December 1944 (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
46 The aftermath of the Allied bombing of Dresden, February 1945 (akg-images/ullstein bild)
47 Field Marshal Sir Alan Brooke and Churchill crossing the, 25 March 1945 (Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)
48 Red Army troops heading for Berlin, April 1945 (Cody Images)
49 Marshal Georgi Zhukov entering Berlin, May 1945 (RIA Novosti)
50 Marshal Ivan Konev (© Sovfoto)
51 Nagasaki after the dropping of the atomic bomb, 9 August 1945 (Getty Images)
52 Mamoru Shigemitsu and General Yoshijiro Umezu surrendering aboard the USS Missouri, 2 September 1945 (Time-Life Pictures/Getty Images)
Endpapers: Flak over a German city, 1940 (ullstein bild/Topofoto)
List of Maps
1 Poland, 1939
2 Finland, 1939–1940
3 Norway, 1940
4 France and the Low Countries, 1940
5 The Battle of Britain, 1940
6 The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939–1943
7 Russia and the Eastern Front, 1941–1943
8 Stalingrad, 1942–1943
9 The Holocaust
10 The Far East, 1941–1945
11 The Far East: Burma, 1941–1945
12 The Far East: Pacific, 1941–1945
13 The Far East: The Philippines, 1941–1945
14 North Africa and the Mediterranean, 1939–1943
15 El Alamein
16 Sicily and Italy,