3 Review(s)

The history of the Second World War, with its horrible twists and turns, is so well known that the major events and their outcomes have taken on a sort of inevitability.  Ian Kershaw's extraordinarily though-provoking and gripping new book, Fateful Choices, demolishes any such sense of inevitability.  It dramatises brilliantly and distressingly events that between them could have resulted in disaster or victory  either for the Allies or for the Axis.