Martin Rubin, writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, gave a positive review, calling All Hell Let Loose "a true distillation of everything this historian has learned from a lifetime of scholarship". Hastings concludes that whilst the Nazis fought individual battles well, their overall war effort showed "stunning incompetence". The book addresses several "triumphalist" aspects of written war history by focusing on the "misery, heroism and endurance" of individual accounts. Reviews refer to the book as an " everyman's story" made up of accounts from those with lesser roles in the conflict "ranging from ship's cooks to wireless operators, farmers and housewives to typists and black marketeers." Synopsis Īll Hell Let Loose covers the entire span of World War II, following the military developments of the war but focusing on the reactions and experiences of different individuals (both uniformed and civilian). In the United States, it was published under the title Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945. All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 is a 2011 book by historian Max Hastings, covering the history of World War II and complementing Hastings' earlier works Overlord, Armageddon and Nemesis.
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