Moral Combat: Good and Evil World War II

"No-one with an interest in the Second World War should be without this book; and indeed nor should anyone who cares about how our world has come about." — Pre-eminent WWII historian Michael Burleigh delivers a brilliant new examination of the day-to-day moral crises underpinning the momentous conflicts of the Second World War. A magisterial counterpart to his award-winning and internationally bestselling , winner of the Samuel Johnson prize, offers a unique and riveting look at, in the words of (London), "not just the war planners faced with the prospect of bombing Dresden or the atrocities of the Holocaust, but also the individuals working at the coalface of war, killing or murdering, resisting or collaborating."