The Second World War - by Martin Gilbert

THE COMPLETE AND DEFINITIVE HISTORY OF WORLD WAR II World War II was the most destructive global conflict in history. Forty million people died during the 2,174 days from Germany's attack on Poland in September 1939 to Japan's surrender in August 1945. In these pages, Martin Gilbert chronicles each day, week, month and year of advance of the terrible juggernaut of death and destruction that spread across several countries. With words from representatives of Nazism, such as Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler, from the opposition and allies, such as Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt, and even from anonymous victims of the atrocities, these pages make up the complete story in its multiple perspectives. Intertwining all aspects of the global war - political, diplomatic, military and civil -, and also with the transitional maps of countries that segregated and unified throughout the years of conflict and landmark events, the author draws a unique and definitive panorama of the most studied war in history and which to this day brings endless prerevelations. "A masterful work... Gilbert brings the strongest possible support to the history of World War II and shows how the greatest war ever fought reached every corner of the globe" - The New York Times. About the author: Sir Martin Gilbert is one of the leading historians of his generation. For thirty years an honorary member of Merton College, Oxford, he is Churchill's official biographer and author of eighty books, including Churchill - A Life; First World War; A Comprehensive History of Israel and the three volumes of A History of the Twentieth Century