"This remarkable book should be the standard work for a long time. A true comparative study, it relates the experience of all the main countries (and sometimes

While the impact of World War II on America and other countries has been exhaustively chronicled, few historians have investigated the experiences of individual

"This remarkable book should be the standard work for a long time. A true comparative study, it relates the experience of all the main countries (and sometimes

The period spanning the two World Wars was unquestionably the most catastrophic in Europe's history. Despite such undeniably progressive developments as the rad

The Second World War was, for Britain, a 'total war'; no section of society remained untouched by military conscription, air raids, the shipping crisis and the