Hinge of Fate

Winston Churchill's six-volume history of the cataclysm that swept the world remains the definitive history of the Second World War. The Hinge of Fate describes how the tide of the war gradually turned for Britain and its allies from constant defeat to almost unbroken successes - Japan's successful assault on the Pacific, Britain's attempts to aid a beleaguered Russia and the defeat of Rommel at the Battle of Alamein.