Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

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In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting. With Armageddon, the eminent military historian Max Hastings gives us memorable accounts of the grea...more

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Feb 18, 2013 Mike rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 is the definition of a 5 Star rating. Max Hastings chronicles the final battles to defeat Nazi Germany. He starts the story in August, 1944 with the Allies about to launch Op Market-Garden in the West and the Soviets drawn up along the Vistula, preparing for their next stage of the assault into Poland. Mr Hastings is able to take you effortlessly from the foxhole or tank turret to the highest levels of SHAEF or STAVKA. He makes it all interesting and...more

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Feb 22, 2010 Eric_W rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Max Hastings is one of the premier historians of the Second World War. Unlike Stephen Ambrose, who , while a very readable historian -- even knowing whom to plagarize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_...) -- is as much a cheerleader as historian, Hastings presents objective analysis. It's fortuitous that he also happens to be a very good writer.

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 follows his Overlord D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. Hastings succeeds in explaining why the Germans...more Max Hastings is one of the premier historians of the Second World War. Unlike Stephen Ambrose, who , while a very readable historian -- even knowing whom to plagarize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_...) -- is as much a cheerleader as historian, Hastings presents objective analysis. It's fortuitous that he also happens to be a very good writer.

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 follows his Overlord D-Day and the Battle for Normandy. Hastings succeeds in explaining why the Germans fought so tenaciously even after the war was obviously lost. Within ten weeks after the landings at Normandy, the allies were at the Rhine. The Russians, without whom we could never have defeated Hitler, were pressing hard on the eastern front.

Hastings portrays the Wehrmacht as one of the premier armies of the world -- and also one of the most vicious in its treatment of civilians. We tend to forget the enormous casualties suffered in WW II that make WW I look like a walk in the park. The Russians alone, according to some estimates, suffered some forty million deaths (of course, Stalin was responsible for many of them through vicious reprisals and substantial incompetence.)

Hastings presents a convincing case that poor training of allied troops and less than inspired generalship by Montgomery and Eisenhower prolonged the war, which should have ended, her argues, by the end of 1944. [A book I recently finished reading, [book:Company Commander The Classic Infantry Memoir of World War II|182134], notes that George Marshall deliberately kept the numbers of troops down so as to allocate more resources to materiel production and naval and air resources.] The Red Army, while having more spectacular leadership, suffered from its callous treatment of its own troops. They responded with savagery against the occupied countries. The more democratic countries' armies were substantially more humane -- Americans never saw the Germans as the inhuman barbarians they considered the Japanese to be -- but relied on the advances of the Russians to tie down German SS units on the east which otherwise would have been used against the allies.

Democracies tend to be more cautious in war, having to be concerned with casualties. Hastings notes that the Red Army and Germans had no such concern and could be much more profligate with their armies.

On the other hand, Germans fighting to the bitter end, for whatever reason, be it indoctrination or saving Europe from the Asiatic hordes, meant that they had more time to kill Jews. Almost 500,000 Jews were shipped to concentration camps from Hungary in mid-1944.

A fascinating book .(less)

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Feb 05, 2009 Bookmarks Magazine added it · review of another edition

Drawing on untapped Russian archives, Hastings (a former war correspondent and leading military historian) rethinks the final year of World War II in this sequel to Overlord (1984), an account of the Normandy landings. He writes with authority, technical mastery, and profound sympathy for the victims of war, particularly German civilians. Although much of this story has been told before, Hastings casts new light on the war's devastating tolls on lowly GIs, confused civilians, and commanding offi

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May 13, 2013 Leon marked it as to-read · review of another edition

Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings–one of Britain’s most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy “to stand with that of the best journalists and writers” (New York Times Book Review).In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setb

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Oct 23, 2012 Nat added it

I've read a lot of popular WWII history, but all of it (with the exception of stuff about the Battle of Berlin) falls within the period from the invasion of Normandy to the end of Market Garden (and maybe some Battle of the Bulge). My knowledge of the war in Europe just completely stops after XXX Corps is halted just short of Arnhem. What the heck happened after that? What were the allies doing such that they were still in Belgium in December 1944? And what was happening on the Eastern Front? (I...more I've read a lot of popular WWII history, but all of it (with the exception of stuff about the Battle of Berlin) falls within the period from the invasion of Normandy to the end of Market Garden (and maybe some Battle of the Bulge). My knowledge of the war in Europe just completely stops after XXX Corps is halted just short of Arnhem. What the heck happened after that? What were the allies doing such that they were still in Belgium in December 1944? And what was happening on the Eastern Front? (I just assumed it was something horrible, and my assumption was a complete underestimation.)

Short version of the 600-page answer to those questions given in this book:

Montgomery was slow to do the necessary work to clear the areas around Antwerp after the port was captured, so it was basically useless to bring in Allied supplies rather than having to ship them all the way across France.

The Allies were not aggressive in pursuing breakouts and encirclements, so German troops could continually fall back and defend. That was partly due to cautious leadership, and partly due to combat troops being reluctant to get killed so close to what was obviously the end of the war, and partly to do with the Germans continuously putting up tough and effective defense even when they were seriously outmatched in material.

Also, there were serious tensions between the Americans and the British, and only Eisenhower's midwestern-style diplomacy held them together. All of the primary Allied generals end up looking bad on this account--not just Montgomery. Patton, for example, ordered a disastrous raid on a German prison camp to try to rescue his son in law. One exception is General Gavin, the commander of the 82nd Airborne division, who Hastings praises very highly (incidentally, I think I remember that Gavin wrote a blurb on the cover of Hastings's book about the Falklands War).

The fighting on the eastern front is just brutal. It's even brutal to read about. I was completely unaware of the scale of the suffering of civilians and the forced migration from East Prussia. Jeez.

Hastings is critical of the performance of the western troops (with the exception of the American paratroops) in comparison with their German opponents and the Soviet steamroller, but he does repeat the idea that the only way that they could have matched the Wehrmacht or Stalin's armies would be by completing giving up the sense that the lives of individual soldiers mattered, and he's insistent that that would have been a terrible outcome! (I concur.)

I found Hastings's account of the bombing campaign interesting--he agrees with the common wisdom that the bombing of cities was out of all proportion to the harm that it did to German industry and military capacity, but he observes that the bombing that really hurt the German war effort was the targeting of oil refineries in Eastern Europe, and the allies slowly realized this towards the end of the war. (less)

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Feb 23, 2012 Patrick rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Max Hastings continues upon his journey to chronicle WWII. Armageddon l;ays out the final year of the war, starting near Operation Market-Garden and ending on the surrender of Nazis Germany.

Hastings does an excellent job of mixing first hand accounts with later data, troop movements, death tolls, etc. For people like me it helps spread the boring parts out and makes them bearable. The numbers also never cease to amaze me, if any modern Army unit lost the numbers they did back they it would cease...more

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Apr 16, 2013 Michael rated it 5 of 5 stars

Max Hastings is my new favourite historian. It seems he trumps Antony Beevor, although I'll have to dig up Beevor and poke around again. An intense, heavily researched work of the last year of Germany's war, wherein Hastings' key skill is to flick back and forth between Allied and Axis forces in the battle to illustrate the feelings, ideologies, mindset, and occasionally-ironic outcomes that ensue. Plus the Hastings wikipedia entry leads to maxhastings.com, and then after leaving my compliments...more

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Dec 30, 2009 Sandy Ferguson rated it 5 of 5 stars

Max Hastings has done it again. With his blend of analysis of the big picture and personal reminiscences of the participants, Hastings tells the story of those terrible last months of the Second World War in Europe. He pulls no punches as he details the reality of those days, the terrible price paid by the Soviets in their campaigns, the revenge they inflicted on the Germans for the horrors that the Germans had inflicted on the Soviet Union and the struggles of the Western Allies as they grind t...more

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Mar 12, 2010 Raymond rated it 5 of 5 stars

It was the biggest battlefield in history, spreading from the English Channel to the Vistula River in Poland. The battlefield involved more humans, combatants and non-combatants, than any other battlefield. It claimed more lives. More guns and tanks and airplanes were massed across the battlefield than were seen before or since on a single continent. This battle ground was - Max Hastings’ title, “Armageddon, The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945.” Hastings is a master when writing of battles on the...more

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Aug 28, 2012 Ali rated it 4 of 5 stars

Max Hastings has written a great narrative, one that captures as much as possible of horrors of war and the pain it causes. Many historians have wrote on WWII, however the last year has received scant attention, at best the shortest chapter of their voluminous books. This is not true about Hastings. He writes of the last war, Allies' mistakes, British reluctance to sacrifice more British lives, Germans' fanaticism and Russians' ruthlessness with eloquence and passion. His account is a balanced o...more

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Sep 27, 2010 Charles Mccain rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of brutal fighting.
With Armageddon, the eminent military historian Max Hastings gives us memorable accounts of the great battles and captures their human impact on soldiers and civilians. He tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts...more

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Jun 03, 2010 Nathan rated it 1 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Once again, Max Hastings corrals an impressive amount of material but fails to build it into a cohesive and organized study. The most rudimentary of theses - that Russia's alliance with Britain was fraught with tension- is presented at the outset, but to absolutely no effect. This is a straight chronological narrative, bereft of any analysis or implication. I was frustrated with it from the beginning. It's not that Hastings is a bad writer (though he's not a good one), or that he hasn't any know...more

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Apr 13, 2007 Paul added it

What REALLY happened to that Band of Brothers as they gingerly subdued the German army in WWII.

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Feb 05, 2013 Peter Fortune rated it 5 of 5 stars

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Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-45 –- Max Hastings –- 2004

Max Hastings is the Dean of WWII. This early book t assesses both the end of the Eastern Campaign that began with Hitler’s invasion of Russia and the Western Campaign following the Allied invasion of Normandy. Germany was squeezed between a rock—the absolutely brutal and under-resourced Russians on its east flank—and a hard place—the well-resourced and more civil Allies on its western flank. The on-the-ground observations of sold...more

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Jan 11, 2013 Kenghis Khan rated it 2 of 5 stars

This book was seriously overrated. I read a few reviews before deciding to read it that considered it one of the best books of the year. There are, to be sure, some interesting points. The author points out how reluctant western allied soldiers were, and the emphasis on the fragility of the Anglo-American alliance was pretty interesting. But these are points that did not take about 500 pages to make. Indeed, aside from a few really gripping chapters (e.g., on the allied air war), the book was si...more This book was seriously overrated. I read a few reviews before deciding to read it that considered it one of the best books of the year. There are, to be sure, some interesting points. The author points out how reluctant western allied soldiers were, and the emphasis on the fragility of the Anglo-American alliance was pretty interesting. But these are points that did not take about 500 pages to make. Indeed, aside from a few really gripping chapters (e.g., on the allied air war), the book was simply long-winded and repetitive. This was compounded by the author's incessant moralizing (more on this below) and the pedantic description of military details. Way too many dry passages about the minutia of military manouevers that really remind one of the history channel narration. It's not clear to me what detailed accounts of ammunition counts had to add, and the author seemed more intent on getting recollections of soldiers in print than on really giving the reader a feel for the battle scene.

I also found the book to be unduly harsh on the Soviet Union. The author repeatedly laments how the allies let Eastern Europe fall under Stalin's tyranny, and how Zhukov and his ilk were really quite horrific people. Fair enough, but in other areas the author let's his biases shine through. For instance, the author goes to considerable length repeatedly documenting how the Soviet Union singularly betrayed hopes for democracy in Poland, but utterly neglects how the American/British imposed military junta of Greece for instance violently persecuted labor unionists, communists and socialists there.

There were also several potentially interesting story lines the author just leaves dangling. He gives no more than a passing reference to some of the institutional racism that operated within the American presence in Europe. He sites the astounding statistic that something like 40% of death penalty cases the US military handled against their own soldiers were against African Americans, but this only mentioned in passing. Another example of what I see as a "missed opportunity" of sorts is the author's all-too brief mention of non-German SS units. If the central question of the book is why Germany fought a doomed struggle so doggedly, the question of how those non-Germans came to see the war, and how they dealt with repatriation, would seem insightful. Perhaps there just weren't enough eyewitness accounts.

In conclusion, I found this book disappointing. The author asks an interesting question and is upfront that a lot of what they have to say isn't particularly novel. But between the anti-Soviet preaching and the tedious discussions of military detail, I found that even the author's pretty good writing abilities couldn't salvage what became and unwieldy and needlessly drawn-out project.(less)

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Apr 04, 2012 C. Patrick rated it 4 of 5 stars

So far, so good. Very readable narrative.

Having completed the book, here is a passage that stands out for me:

"Matthew Ridgway, commanding XVII Airborne Corps, was absent in England when the German offensive (the Bulge, in December 1944) began. Gavin of the 82nd filled his place superbly through the first days, returning to his own division when the corps commander arrived. The force of Ridgway's personality is stamped upon every line of his correspondence, every record of his conversations. Afte...more

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Jun 30, 2011 Jacob rated it 3 of 5 stars

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Like the war itself, reading this book is a long slog through dense information and only mildly ordered presentation. However, it is really good information to have - an account of World War II from September 1944 (post D-Day) onward, mostly from the perspective of the common soldiers and civilians who fought and lived in it. Conditions on both sides were terrible, but especially along the Eastern front where Germans, Russians and members of subject states died in much larger numbers and committ...more

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Dec 21, 2009 Christopher Carbone rated it 3 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: People Who Think WWII ended on D-Day

Armageddon is a very insightful and deep book about the final 9 months of World War II in Europe. The book chronicles the slow and at times deadly advance of the Allied forces through Hitler's Europe starting with the ill fated Operation Market Garden through the bloody, savage , and gruesome Eastern Front.

The author has already written a very well received book on D-Day so those events are barely even mentioned (much to my disappointment) and the book starts with Operation Market Garden where t...more Armageddon is a very insightful and deep book about the final 9 months of World War II in Europe. The book chronicles the slow and at times deadly advance of the Allied forces through Hitler's Europe starting with the ill fated Operation Market Garden through the bloody, savage , and gruesome Eastern Front.

The author has already written a very well received book on D-Day so those events are barely even mentioned (much to my disappointment) and the book starts with Operation Market Garden where the Allied forces get completely crushed by the Germans in Holland. The book details the Allies issues in driving the Germans back through Europe, the brilliance of Patton, the steadiness of Ike, and the ability of the two armies- British and American -to work in cohesion. At the same time the book is able to explain the reality: the Western Front was the war's second front behind the Russians pounding into the East. The book clearly states that the war was won in the East; the West was just a holding effort to pin the Germans down.

The book has really good upsides- interesting first-hand accounts of the soldiers and civilian populations of every nation; the military problems of all sides, and really the most incredible parts of the books are the graphic and terrifying Eastern front where a worn out and undermanned German Army fought with unbridled tenacity against a terrifying Russian horde. The Eastern front was a war of complete savagery and destruction unlike anything the world had seen or would see ever again. The book details the bloody battlefields of Poland and East Prussia where war crimes were rampant on both sides.

The book then details the final shroud of death inside Germany, detailing the collapse of everything - the army, the government, the civilization. Its a very graphic detailing of a destroyed people. The author pays great attention to the destruction of Germany by land and by air and how there was nothing left of the people years after 1945.

However, the book has gaping problems. For starters, as mentioned, I would have liked something on D-Day. The book starts too far removed. Second, there is not a single sentence written about the war in the South- Italy or Rome; no mention of Mussolini or anything south or Austria. Its an unpardonable exclusion. Next, the book details the horror very well... but by the end I was sort of numb to it, kind of like "Yup, got it- war is hell- rape, death, pillaging. Check, check, check."

But the biggest problem is that the book has no central theme. While the book could have easily attracted attention to Hitler and the desire of the Allies to finally bag him, Hitler is almost a perfunctory character in this book; mentioned but never expounded on. As the book goes on, there is no central theme for the book to revolve around, just death and destruction. By Contrast, "Retribution"- the author's telling of the last year in the Pacific Theater, there is a very strong tie between the Americans' war aim v. the desire of Japan to "fight to the death." That theme is encapsulated perfectly in the decision to bomb Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and ending WWII. That theme worked in that book. There is no similar theme in this book; one chapter or section seems to just blandly mix with the next. Its not just a little boring. And I felt this was the greatest weakness of this booka s opposed to Retribution: the book had the opportunity to make one unifying story, but instead hamstrung itself by sticking to many vaguely connected sub stories.

The book is good but alas, not great. (less)

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Nov 01, 2008 Craig rated it 5 of 5 stars

The end of the war in Europe is often glossed over to a large extent in many of the general books about world war 2. The relatively short time between the Allied invasion in June of 1944 and the final defeat of Nazism in May of 1945 seemingly rushed through when compared to the preceding war years.

But with the D-Day landings, the loss of life in ground combat on the Western Front had only just restarted after a 4 year hiatus. On the Eastern Front, the casualty rate was even higher, far higher th...more

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Sep 04, 2008 David rated it 4 of 5 stars

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This is a surpsingly provocative book. Be prepared to have established notions of the Allied defeat of Germany severely challenged.

Hastings thinks that post-D-Day (and the break-out of Allied forces from Normany) the Allied ground campaign in Europe was a series of missed opportunities, poor command and needless casualties. He is particularly critical of Montgomery but does not hold his fire for Eishenhower, Bradley, Roosevelt, Churchill and many other leaders.

By late 44 and 45, he argues, the B...more

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Feb 22, 2011 David Nichols rated it 3 of 5 stars

A harrowing account of the last year of World War Two in Europe, Hastings' "Armageddon" is equally pitiless in its depiction of the Western Allies' strategic incompetence, its description of the Red Army's trail of slaughter and rapine, and its account of Nazi atrocities. Thus, it is a useful corrective to Stephen Ambrose and other accounts of the "Good War." "Armageddon" is not, however, as good as Hastings' more recent history of the last year of WWII in the Pacific, "Retribution."

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Feb 12, 2011 Nathan rated it 4 of 5 stars

This is the first of Hasting books that I have read and I must say I am greatly impressed. He has gone beyond the grand events to bring the reader face to face with the horrifying impact of the final days of the war in Europe. I am especially impressed with the author's objectivity. His willingness to turn a critical eye on the plans and the planners who decided the fate of millions was not corralled by personal interest or national pride. So many War memoirs, whether by chance or design, attemp...more

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Dec 30, 2012 Shawn rated it 5 of 5 stars

It is hard to beat this man's research and hard to argue with his conclusions. He explains very succintly how Germany fell and what a monstorous effort in men (Soviet) and materials (American) it took. He balances the difficult question, can we feel sorry for Germans after the war and the mindless suffering that followed? He answers it well. We can feel badly for individual Germans but not the nation collectively. A tremendous read!

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Jan 12, 2012 Mark Hundley rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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Even-handed account of last year of European theater of operations in WWII, a departure from some of the other near-hagiographies we have become accustomed to. Hastings does not shy away from examining Allied failures. Accessible to the casual historian and offers a better writing style than customary for military history. Similar to Alan Moorehead I thought. Does not address Italian or Balkan aspects.

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Nov 07, 2008 Rod rated it 4 of 5 stars

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Another excellent but perhaps controversial work by Hastings.

Hastings compares battle performance of with western allies with the Soviets and Germans and finds their performance somewhat lacking. This is due, he says, to the natural reluctance of soldiers of the western democracies to shed their natural reluctance to wage war.

Other somewhat controversial perspectives: the overall performance of the US Army was less than stellar, though some units performed spectacularly. His position is that on...more

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Jul 03, 2008 John rated it 5 of 5 stars · review of another edition Recommends it for: WW2 enthusiasts

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Excellent... very comprehensive and very easy to read...

Hastings takes the last 12 months of the Battle for Europe and breaks it up into easily digestible chunks...uniquely timlining the tale from the Commonwealth/USA, Russian and German perspective simultaneously..

There are tails in here that are not popular history which makes the effort all the more successful and worthwhile..the information is packaged in bite-sized chunks and does not sprawl on for page after page as many other historical t...more

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Dec 06, 2012 Grant Kisling rated it 4 of 5 stars · review of another edition

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A great summation of the final year of the European theatre of World War II. It is a perfect companion to the authors other book "retribution" that focuses on the Pacific Theatre of World War II. The book covers both the eastern and the western fronts of the war as well as the impact on all people involved.

The one reason why I enjoyed this book and the authors other book is the critical review and reflection that the author provides on the key players and actions taken. I find them interesting,...more

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May 13, 2012 Renee rated it 5 of 5 stars

One of several I read when I was moved into the WWII Division of DPMO. I very much like the way that Max Hastings writes. It is easy to read and has a nice flow of events. What I like is that he shows the impact on the people and follows both events on the eastern and western fronts. A very good overview.

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Nov 17, 2011 Claire rated it 3 of 5 stars

An interesting narrative overview of a complex and confused period, this is an ambitious book which doesn't quite achieve what it aims for. Hastings is as clear and precise as ever on the military side of things, nicely portraying the bitching and back-biting among the Allied command structure of the period, but where this book falls down is in its attempt to give a more balanced view by showing the civilian experience of war-torn Europe too. This is an excellent idea, and I applaud him for taki...more

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Jul 27, 2011 Phil Duckworth added it

Really good, not just the usual Hitler shoots himself at the end stuff but a lot of other less heard of stuff such as the famine in Holland and the Hurtgen forest. Basically by the end of it everyone was trying not to get shot,

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After leaving Oxford University, Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent, and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard.

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