Armageddon (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Max Hastings
- First Published: 2004
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: September, 1944-April, 1945
- Setting: Belgium, France, Germany, and Poland
- Principal Characters: Winston Churchill, Dwight David Eisenhower, Joseph Stalin, Georgi Zhukov
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Politics, Twentieth century, 1940’s, World War II, War, Nazism or Nazis, Bombs, Armed forces, Germany or German people, Armies, Soviet Union or Soviets, Great Britain, Military art or science, Strategy
- Locales: France, Germany, Poland, Belgium
Max Hastings's Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 begins in September, with American and Commonwealth forces in control of France and pushing the German army almost to the borders of Germany. Allied successes had come so suddenly that many prognosticators thought Germany would collapse by Christmas, 1944. Hastings's history of the last year of World War II offers a number of reasons for Germany's ability to prolong the war, including poor strategy on the part of the Western Allies and the Soviet Union, political difficulties, and German ability to improvise.
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