INFERNO: The World at War, 1939-1945, by Max Hastings (Knopf Doubleday, 752 pp.)
British foreign correspondent and author Max Hastings focuses on the human dimensions of the cataclysm that was World War II – how the war that took 60 million lives blasted, defined, and reshaped the lives of the soldiers, civilians, and politicians around the planet. (November)