All Hell Let Loose – Couldn't I Just Tell You

Review: Savage Continent – Keith Lowe

Posted on 09/04/201619/03/2024 by Speesh in History, Non Fiction, The Second World War

Just be glad you weren't there

Review: Lehrter Station – David Downing

Posted on 12/07/201519/03/2024 by Speesh in Action & Adventure, Fiction, Historical Fiction, Russia, Second World War, Spy, Spy Fiction, The Cold War

The (second) war to end all wars, just started another one.

Review: Potsdam Station – David Downing

Posted on 14/05/201526/03/2024 by Speesh in Fiction, Historical Fiction, Second World War, Spy, Spy Fiction

'An extraordinary evocation of Nazi Germany' - C.J. Sansom

Review: The Second World War – Antony Beevor

Posted on 20/10/201205/09/2023 by Speesh in History, The Second World War

Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's The Second World War never loses sight of the fate of the ordinary soldiers and civilians whose lives were crushed by the titanic forces unleashed in this, the most terrible war in history.

Review: All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 – Max Hastings

Posted on 26/03/201205/09/2023 by Speesh in History, The Second World War

My version: HardbackGenre: Non Fiction History, World War IIPublisher: Harper Press (Harper Collins)First published: 2011Pages: 748ISBN: 978-0-00-733809-2Bought From the cover:"This is a study of the greatest and most terrible event in history, which shows its impact upon hundreds of millions of people around the world - soldiers, sailors and airmen; British housewives and Indian peasants; SS … Continue reading Review: All Hell Let Loose: The World at War, 1939-1945 – Max Hastings →