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050	0	0	_aD743 _b.H364 2011
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100	1		_aHastings, Max
245	1	0	_aInferno _b: the world at war, 1939-1945 _c/ Max Hastings
250			_a1st. U.S. ed.
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2011.
300			_axx, 729 p., [48] p. of plates _b: ill., maps _c; 25 cm.
500			_aOriginally published: London : HarperPress, 2011.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 691-699) and index.
520			_aAn indelible account of what World War II was like for the people who experienced it, from soldiers at the front to civilians both near and far from the fighting, to the generals and political leaders making the decisions that affected the lives of millions. Inferno is unique in its portrait of everyday people--of American and British housewives, Soviet infantrymen, Indian peasants, and Luftwaffe crew. But the larger context is here, too: Hastings widens his focus to explain the geopolitics and larger strategic considerations of the war, from Hitler's refusal to retreat in Russia until it was too late, to Stalin's ruthlessness in using his greater population to wear down the Germans, to Churchill's leadership in the dark days of 1940 and 1941, to Roosevelt's steady leadership before and after the United States entered the war.
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945
942			_cMO
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