Read All Hell Let Loose Online
Authors: Max Hastings
Women riveters in an American dockyard
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CORBIS
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A twelve year-old Russian worker at the Perm aero engine factory
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ITAR-TASS
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The Red Army advances
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© The Russian State Documentary Film and Photo Archive at Krasnogorsk (RGAKFD)/Minkevich collection
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One of Zainul Abedin’s sketches from life – and death – of victims of the 1943-44 Bengal famine
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Courtesy of Mainul Abedin
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Italians with one of their would-be liberators
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US National Archives & Records Administration: 208-AA-240C-3
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Crewmen of the US carrier
Intrepid
bury comrades at sea
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US National Archives & Records Administration: 80-G-468912
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A Hellcat pilot quits his cockpit after a flight-deck mishap
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AP Photo/US Navy/Press Association
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Temporary reprieve: a British bomber crew returns from a raid on Germany during the strategic air offensive which killed more than half of the RAF aircrew who took part
The price of collaboration: a street scene in liberated France
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US National Archives & Records Administration: 111-SC-193318
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A Japanese family on Saipan encounter their first American
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US Marine Corps/Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images
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One of Slim's bren-gunners in Burma
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Imperial War Museum SE 564
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Recovering wounded in France
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AP Photo/Press Association
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