Before you is a book with an amazing destiny. Quite unexpectedly for the author, who conceived a military-analytical essay, it turned into the official British version of the history of the Second World War. Do not look in these pages for tactical details of battles that died down, statistical tables or diplomatic documents - all this is not in the book. The greatest English military historian B.G. Liddell Hart, author of the excellent Strategy of Indirect Action, analyzes the principles of military operations. The book is a “ceremonial portrait” of the great British Empire in its “best” (according to W. Churchill), but, as it turned out, its last hour. The author will guide you through all the vicissitudes of military happiness and misfortune of Russia's Western allies. Poland, the Atlantic, France, the Balkans, the Mediterranean, North Africa, the Pacific Ocean, the Russian expanses, India and Burma - this is the setting for this classic English “detective”. Military history as presented by B.G. Liddell Hart is emphatically plot-driven and reads with unflagging interest.