Lucid and comprehensive-a vivid essay on wartime blunders and the post-war bluster that tried to hide them

Exhaustively researched and scholarly-an exciting story and one that benefits from accounts written at the time by various soldiers and observers

Between these covers you will find a wholly unpretentious, terrifyingly honest breakdown of a war-exceptionally harrowing and impossible to put down

Ponting is both incisive and original in his account of what contemporaries called the "Russian War"

Gutsy, humorous and a tiny bit snobby, she's a brilliant correspondent and chronicler of the times.

A wonderful, insightful illustration of the activities, thoughts and feelings of a young woman during the turbulent time of war.

Lively letters from Maureen, a Wren, to her RAF boyfriend kept their romance alive from 1941-45. Eric, who married her, was a lucky man.

Children are history's forgotten people; amidst the sound and fury of battle, as commanders decide the fate of empires, they are never seen. Yet as Nicholas Stargardt reveals in his heart-rending account of children's lives under the Nazis, to ignore them is to leave history half-written. This is an excellent book and it tells a terrible story... As Stargardt so eloquently reminds us, the tragedy is that children were part of the equation and suffered accordingly

'Nicholas Stargardt evokes the individual voices of children under Nazi rule. In re-creating their wartime experiences, he has produced a challenging new historical interpretation of the Second World War