A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.`Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling and also deeply moving account seeks to explain both how Europe plunged into what was then called `The Great War’, what befell the millions of people of many nations caught up in the first months on the battlefield and as civilian victims.`All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945’: This is `everyman’s story’ of 1939-45 from a host of viewpoints across the world- British fighter pilots and Russians tanker crew, Chinese peasants and French housewives, American naval gunners and Italian partisans. Here, with an extraordinary blend of top-down and bottom-up testimony is Hastings’s acclaimed answer to the question `what was World War II like?’
