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Max Hastings. Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe
Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose. Catastrophe
Max Hastings. All Hell Let Loose
Dedication
Contents
Maps
Introduction
1. Poland Betrayed
2. No Peace, Little War
3. Blitzkriegs in the West
4. Britain Alone
5. The Mediterranean
6. Barbarossa
7. Moscow Saved, Leningrad Starved
8. America Embattled
9. Japan’s Season of Triumph
10. Swings of Fortune
11. The British at Sea
12. The Furnace: Russia in 1942
13. Living with War
14. Out of Africa
15. The Bear Turns: Russia in 1943
16. Divided Empires
17. Asian Fronts
18. Italy: High Hopes, Sour Fruits
19. War in the Sky
20. Victims
21. Europe Becomes a Battlefield
22. Japan: Defying Fate
23. Germany Besieged
24. The Fall of the Third Reich
25. Japan Prostrate
26. Victors and Vanquished
Picture Section
Notes and References
Bibliography
Searchable Terms
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Illustrations
Maps
Introduction
1914 Chronology
The Organisation of Armies in 1914
Prologue. SARAJEVO
1 ‘A Feeling that Events are in the Air’ 1 CHANGE AND DECAY
2 BATTLE PLANS
2. The Descent to War. 1 THE AUSTRIANS THREATEN
2 THE RUSSIANS REACT
3 THE GERMANS MARCH
4 THE BRITISH DECIDE
3 ‘The Superb Spectacle of the World Bursting Into Flames’ 1 MIGRATIONS
2 PASSIONS
3 DEPARTURES
4. Disaster on the Drina
5. Death with Flags and Trumpets. 1 THE EXECUTION OF PLAN XVII
2 ‘GERMAN BEASTLINESS’
3 LANREZAC ENCOUNTERS SCHLIEFFEN
6. The British Fight. 1 MONS
2 LE CATEAU: ‘WHERE THE FUN COMES IN, I DON’T KNOW’
7. The Retreat
8. Tannenberg: ‘Alas, How Many Thousands Lie There Bleeding!’
9. The Hour of Joffre. 1 PARIS AT BAY
2 SIR JOHN DESPAIRS
3 SEEDS OF HOPE
10. The Nemesis of Moltke. 1 THE MARNE
2 ‘STALEMATE IN OUR FAVOUR’
11 ‘Poor Devils, They Fought Their Ships Like Men’
12. Three Armies in Poland
13 ‘Did You Ever Dance With Him?’ 1 HOME FRONTS
2 NEWS AND ABUSE
14. Open Country, Open Sky. 1 CHURCHILL’S ADVENTURE
2 ‘INVENTIONS OF THE DEVIL’
15. Ypres: ‘Something that was Completely Hopeless’
16 ‘War Becomes the Scourge of Mankind’ 1 POLAND
2 THE SERBS’ LAST TRIUMPH
17. Mudlife
18. Silent Night, Holy Night
Footnotes. Introduction
1914 Chronology
1. ‘A Feeling that Events are in the Air’
Notes and References
1 CHANGE AND DECAY
2 BATTLE PLANS
1 THE AUSTRIANS THREATEN
2 THE RUSSIANS REACT
3 THE GERMANS MARCH
4 THE BRITISH DECIDE
1 MIGRATIONS
2 PASSIONS
3 DEPARTURES
2 ‘GERMAN BEASTLINESS’
3 LANREZAC ENCOUNTERS SCHLIEFFEN
1 MONS
2 LE CATEAU: ‘WHERE THE FUN COMES IN, I DON’T KNOW’
1 PARIS AT BAY
2 SIR JOHN DESPAIRS
3 SEEDS OF HOPE
1 THE MARNE
2 ‘STALEMATE IN OUR FAVOUR’
1 HOME FRONTS
2 NEWS AND ABUSE
1 CHURCHILL’S ADVENTURE
2 ‘INVENTIONS OF THE DEVIL’
1 POLAND
2 THE SERBS’ LAST TRIUMPH
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgements
A Note on the Author
By the Same Author
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