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      ALL HELL LET LOOSE. Copyright © Max Hastings 2011. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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      Dedication

      TO MICHAEL SISSONS,

       for thirty years a princely agent,

       counsellor and friend

      Contents

       Cover

      Title Page

      Copyright

      Dedication

      List of Maps

      Introduction

      1 Poland Betrayed

      2 No Peace, Little War

      3 Blitzkriegs in the West

      1 Norway

      2 The Fall of France

      4 Britain Alone

      5 The Mediterranean

      1 Mussolini Gambles

      2 A Greek Tragedy

      3 Sandstorms

      6 Barbarossa

      7 Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved

      8 America Embattled

      9 Japan’s Season of Triumph

      1 ‘I Suppose you’ll Shove the Little Men Off’

      2 The ‘White Route’ from Burma

      10 Swings of Fortune

      1 Bataan

      2 The Coral Sea and Midway

      3 Guadalcanal and New Guinea

      11 The British at Sea

      1 The Atlantic

      2 Arctic Convoys

      3 The Ordeal of Pedestal

      12 The Furnace: Russia in 1942

      13 Living with War

      1 Warriors

      2 Home Fronts

      3 A Woman’s Place

      14 Out of Africa

      15 The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943

      16 Divided Empires

      1 Whose Liberty?

      2 The Raj: Unfinest hour

      17 Asian Fronts

      1 China

      2 Jungle-Bashing and Island-Hopping

      18 Italy: High Hopes, Sour Fruits

      1 Sicily

      2 The Road to Rome

      3 Yugoslavia

      19 War in the Sky

      1 Bombers

      2 Targets

      20 Victims

      1 Masters and Slaves

      2 Killing Jews

      21 Europe Becomes a Battlefield

      22 Japan: Defying Fate

      23 Germany Besieged

      24 The Fall of the Third Reich

      1 Budapest: In the Eye of the Storm

      2 Eisenhower’s Advance to the Elbe

      3 Berlin: The Last Battle

      25 Japan Prostrate

      26 Victors and Vanquished

      Picture Section

      Notes and References

      Bibliography

      Searchable Terms

      Acknowledgements

      Other Books by Max Hastings

       About the Publisher

      Maps