Read All Hell Let Loose Online
Authors: Max Hastings
Poles catch a first glimpse of the Luftwaffe
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Hulton Deutsch Collection/CORBIS
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Poland: the occupiers confront the occupied
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Instytut Pamieci Narodowej/United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
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Finnish 'ghost soldiers'; and (below) a Russian, frozen in death
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Keystone/Getty Images
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Norway invaded
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akg-images/Ullstein Bild
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Dunkirk evacuated
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IAM/akg-images
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Parisians watch the Germans march in
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US National Archives & Records Administration: 208-PP-10A-3
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Coventry, November 1940
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Hulton Archive/Getty Images
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British gunners in North Africa
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Mirrorpix
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A German entertains a Frenchwoman who has discovered the virtues of collaboration
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Paul Almasy/akg-images
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Mass execution of Russian Jews by SS Einsatzgruppen D, c.1942. (
Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
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Wartime food meant different things to different peoples. In America (above) a family celebrates Thanksgiving 1942, in a belligerent nation where hunger remained unknown
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Bettmann/CORBIS
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Starving man with bread ration in Leningrad, 1941–42. (
akg-images
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