As usual, and for a number of years therefore, A. Beevor takes us once again in the furnace and the terror of the greatest disaster of the twentieth century, and, once is not custom, even after having read his preceding works, the D.Day, Stalingrad, essential works if it is, it is still able to bring us a huge amount of facts, anectoctes, details, new, never repeat, al aid cards, extracts from letters of combatants on both sides, and the book becomes essential, accurate, complete, and it manages almost 1000 pages, has bring new angles of studies, a new look at this bloody conflict and furiously murderer. The book can be read as a novel, as the text is clear and never too "academic", yet all angles are covered, conflict Sino / Japanese submarine war has, through the formidable Battle of Britain, the sands of Normandy ratings, this book represents to date the most complete, lively and exciting money on this. Only thematic books Anglo-Saxon (often untranslated) and narratives of combatants on both sides can compete with this monument, but without the global vision and general Beevor. indispensable!