World War II. The Complete History

World-renowned British historian Martin Gilbert has created a comprehensive history of World War II, showing all its complexity and tragedy. In this narrative based on documentary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and suffering, defeats and victories, special attention is paid to the maneuvers, tactics, and strategies of the armies that fought in the Western European, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Southeast Asian, Middle Eastern, Pacific, and African theaters of war, as well as reflecting the views of politicians, military leaders, journalists, civilians, and ordinary soldiers. This book, which is one of the first historical studies of World War II in which the Holocaust is described as an integral part of the military conflict, provides testimonies from people who survived the occupation, found themselves behind enemy lines, and belonged to national minorities. Martin Gilbert managed to create a comprehensive panorama of one of the bloodiest wars in history, which claimed over fifty million lives and irrevocably changed countless others.
For the first time in Russian — a classic work on the history of World War II, which has been repeatedly reissued in English and has also been published in other languages: Chinese, Czech, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese, and Spanish. The publication contains 102 maps and more than 100 black-and-white archival photographs.