This is the first iBook I have ever read and reading it on a computer screen is a great help. The book is written in a pleasantly tight way. No urge to impatiently skip parts. Easy to read every word because the prose is so well done. Hastings use of letters from people from all sides, civilian and military alike bring the history to life. This is no dry history. It is visceral yet not sensational. It is unbiased in how he views all sides of this war. His projection of history as PEOPLE makes the book come alive and make a long book seem like a chapter so hungry does it make the reader to continue and read more and more. A truly brilliant history of WWII.

This book was actually recommended by a stranger that I met on a flight to Washington DC. A great book for those who appreciate an unclouded view of fact. At no point is this book yielding to PC view or opinion. This is the first book I have read since high school and because of Hastings, I now enjoy reading again.

Excellently researched and documented. Recommend for historians who have widely read and studied WWII because Hastings emphasizes the human elements of the was while using the broad themes and strategies as assumed background. I give this work FIVE STARS!! Outstanding!

A must read for those interested in the greatest modern day tragedy.

Great book, very intresting. Teaches you everything about the war. It has amazing pictures of World War Two. Sometimes a hard read, but a good buy.

I've read Retribution, Armageddon, Winston's War and now Inferno by Max Hastings. I learn something new about the subject in each of his books and I have read a ton on WW2. This book is a very good read but the entire war is too big a subject so Max can't cover everything in the detail I was accustomed to from Retribution and Armageddon. Winston's War was the best of the bunch and this is the weakest but still worth 4 stars. Read them all if you can

An excellent account of WWII, especially if you do not want to get bogged down in the minutiae of military maneuvers. Hastings does an excellent job of telling the stories of the participants of this event.