1942: THE HINGE OF FATE

Volume Four of The Second World War: A Seven-Volume History

Quentin Drummond Anderson

From the bestselling author of The Fearless Fifteen, Lions and Foxes and Warriors of the First Nations comes the fourth volume in a sweeping seven-volume history of the Second World War.

The year the world turned.

At the beginning of 1942, the Axis powers appeared unstoppable. Japan swept across Asia and the Pacific. Singapore fell in the greatest surrender in British military history. Rommel threatened Egypt, German U-boats stalked the Atlantic, and Hitler’s armies drove towards Stalingrad.

By the end of those twelve months, the course of the war had changed.

In 1942: The Hinge of Fate, Quentin Drummond Anderson tells the story of the decisive year when Allied survival began to become Allied resurgence.

At Midway, a few extraordinary minutes shattered Japanese naval momentum. On Guadalcanal, American forces fought a brutal campaign for control of the Pacific. At El Alamein, Montgomery halted Rommel. And amid the ruins of Stalingrad, the German advance finally met a resistance it could not overcome.

Yet 1942 was also a year of unimaginable darkness. Across occupied Europe, the Holocaust entered its most lethal phase as Nazi Germany's machinery of industrialised murder reached terrible new dimensions.

Combining vivid battlefield narrative, strategic insight and human stories, 1942: The Hinge of Fate follows the commanders, soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians caught in the year that changed the direction of the war.

From North Africa to Stalingrad, from the Atlantic convoys to the Pacific, this is the story of twelve months in which Axis expansion reached its high-water mark — and began to recede.

The Axis reached its summit.

The Allies refused to break.

The fate of civilisation turned.

1942: THE HINGE OF FATE

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