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All content included on our site, such as text, images, digital downloads and other, is the property of its content suppliers and protected by. Hastings simultaneously traces the major developments and puts them into real. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Culled from diaries, letters, interviews, memoirs, legal testimony and notes found in the pockets of dead soldiers, inferno tries to answer the urgent question of what it was actually like to be caught up in the chaos, to have your world and your family torn apart and your life taken away from you. Sir max hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every british national newspaper. Hastings gives us the strategies of the war as a framework, a glue to bring into focus the war at a personal level.
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