The Storm of War: A New History of the Second World War

by Andrew Roberts

‘the domestication of anti-Semitism’ took place in the 1880s and early 1890s,

it is surprising that it took a full half-century of such propaganda and hatred before Hitler incorporated violence against the Jews into a political platform.

Patton wrote: ‘I know that nothing I can do can assuage your grief except to point out to you that since all of us must die, there is comfort in the fact that your husband died gloriously doing his duty as a man and a soldier.’17

The Second World War lasted for 2,174 days, cost $1.5 trillion and claimed the lives of over 50 million people.

That represents 23,000 lives lost every day, or more than fifteen people killed every minute, for six long years.