The world famous British historian Martin Gilbert created a complete history of World War II, showing all its complexity and tragedy. Based on documentary sources and eyewitness accounts, the narrative of heroism and suffering, defeats and victories pays close attention to the maneuvers, tactics and strategies of the armies that fought in the Western European, Eastern European, Mediterranean, Southeast Asian, Middle East, Pacific and African theaters of operations, and also reflects the views of politicians, military leaders, journalists, civilians and ordinary soldiers. This book, one of the first historical studies of World War II, which describes the Holocaust as an integral part of military conflict, provides evidence of people who survived the occupation, were behind enemy lines and belonged to national minorities. Martin Gilbert managed to create a voluminous panorama of one of the bloodiest wars in history, which claimed more than fifty million lives and irrevocably changed countless others. For the first time in Russian - a classic work on the history of World War II, which was repeatedly reprinted in English, and also appeared in other languages: Chinese, Czech, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish.