1945: THE RECKONING-VOLUME SEVEN-THE SECOND WORLD WAR: A Seven-Volume History

1945: The ReckoningVolume Seven of The Second World War: A Seven-Volume HistoryThe war ended. The consequences had only begun.From bestselling author and historian Quentin Drummond Anderson comes the powerful final volume of his sweeping seven-volume history of the Second World War.Six years after Germany invaded Poland, the world stood transformed. Empires were shaken, nations destroyed and millions dead. Victory was approaching, but the final months would prove among the bloodiest of the entire conflict.By January 1945, Nazi Germany was surrounded. The Red Army advanced from the East while Western Allied forces prepared to cross the Rhine. Hitler's thousand-year Reich was collapsing into ruin.This was the year of Berlin, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. The year Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met at Yalta to shape the post-war world, even as the first shadows of the Cold War appeared.It was the year Roosevelt died, Churchill lost power and Stalin consolidated Soviet influence across Eastern Europe.It was the year Allied soldiers liberated concentration camps, exposing the industrialised horrors of the Holocaust. Survivors emerged, war criminals faced pursuit, and the world confronted the immense challenge of justice.And in August, the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki announced a terrifying new era in human history.Combining military strategy, political drama and the experiences of ordinary people, 1945: The Reckoning explores not merely how the war ended, but how its consequences shaped everything that followed.The United Nations. The nuclear age. The Cold War. The decline of empires. A new global order forged through unimaginable sacrifice.The final chapter of a war that changed the world forever.1945: The Reckoning completes Quentin Drummond Anderson's seven-volume history of humanity's greatest conflict.Audiobook narrated by Colonel Bob Stewart DSO.