The book is very well researched, a bibliography in the back lists close to three-hundred books pertaining to the events of the Second World War, and even then Hastings mentions many other texts and sources were omitted to save space. This book would be an excellent way for younger generations to learn the history of the Second World War. Indeed, at times the reader may have to be cautious to not forget that this is not a fictional piece of literature.
All Hell Let Loose at times reads like a gripping novel. Each chapter provides a wealth of information whilst being written in a very addictive way. Hastings breaks the book down into a series of 26 chapters, each one representing a major event in the Second World War.
It gives the reader an overwhelming sense of perspective to have an unyielding respect to the people who survived it civilians and soldiers, Allies or Axis. It perfectly describes the turbulent events that effected the vast majority of the world. Of all the historians who have undertaken this task, Sir Max Hastings delivers an excellent offering to a world with a vast abundance of reading material. historians who would choose to undertake this task, in any medium of media, would face monumental challenges. It is difficult to comprehensively cover the major events that occurred during the Second World War. Indeed, the seven long years of war are splattered in blood across the pages of history. Even small nations thousands of miles away who had never heard of obscure Polish towns like Treblinka or Auschwitz, such as New Zealand lost over 11,000 of its population of just 1.6 million. By the time the Germans surrendered on May 7 th 1945, up to 13 million people six million of them Jews, had perished either in the gas chambers or died at the hands of the Germans, primarily the SS. The Russians, for example, estimate some 27 million civilians and armed forces members perished during its bitter struggle with the iron-spirited Nazis, accounting for nearly half of the estimated losses throughout the entire conflict. Every single country felt its effects, some more than others. In a time so very close to our own, the world underwent changes and experienced a conflict that has never been seen, and indeed, will ever be seen again. It is difficult to condense the history of the Second World War into anything, let alone a single text.
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