Read All Hell Let Loose Online
Authors: Max Hastings
A German discovers Russia's winter
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AP Photo/Press Association
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Victors celebrate at Bataan
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US National Archives & Records Administration, Washington D.C.
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Indian refugees on the flight from Burma which killed uncounted thousands
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George Rodger/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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American prisoners in the Philippines
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US National Archives & Records Administration, Washington: 127-N-114541
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War in the Pacific:
Lexington
's crew abandon ship during the battle of the Coral Sea
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AP Photo/Press Association
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Japanese soldiers killed on Guadalcanal, August 1942. (
AP Photo/Press Association
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Australians evacuate a casualty during the struggle on Papua-New Guinea's Kokoda Trail
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AP Photo/Press Association
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Chipping ice on an Arctic convoy
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AP Photo/Press Association
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Survivors of a U-boat sunk in the North Atlantic, April 1943. (
Photo by Jack January/USCG Historian’s Office
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WRENS – women of the Royal Navy – push out a submarine torpedo for loading. Britain mobilised a larger proportion of its female population for war service than any other nation save Russia.
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Imperial War Museum A 19471
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Some of Chiang Kai-shek's unhappy soldiers, of whom more than a million died in their 1937-45 struggle against the Japanese
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Jack Wilkes/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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A retreating German on the Eastern front
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Keystone/Getty Images
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Collateral damage: Russia in 1943
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© The Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD)/N. Asnina
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