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Starred Review on October 15, 2013 | Social Sciences
Hastings (Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945) turns his hand to the run-up to and first battles of World War I. A theme throughout is the German and Austro-Hungarian brutality and moral culpability for many of the war's horrors while the Allies' political and military leadership was incompetent. Acknowledging that history has never come to a consensus about blame for the catastrophe, Hastings clearly sympathizes with the Allies an...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
