Book review - "All Hell Broke Loose" by Max Hastings

Excellent one volume history of WW2. Hastings has a real ex journo's gift of the key anecdote, and it's full of memorable vignettes humanising the great struggle. He is overly impressed with the Russian war effort - yes, they did take on the bulk of the fight, but maybe they could have won fighting a less ruthless way. (I've noticed a few historians lately seem to have taken a "Nazis couldn't have been defeated without totalitarianism" attitude.)