In this book, Len Deighton offers a new perspective on the events of World War II. He is known as the author of a number of original studies in the field of military history, as well as best-selling political detective stories. His literary talent, talent and scrupulousness as a researcher, as well as, undoubtedly, the experience and knowledge gained during his work in the British intelligence services, made it possible to create a very interesting work in which, relying on archival sources and eyewitness accounts, he paints a large-scale canvas of events for the reader. events that took place before and during the Second World War. He shows how miscalculations and incompetence, the unwillingness to learn from their own mistakes of the political and military elite of the main world powers, led to the unleashing of the greatest massacre in human history, the involvement of more and more participants in it and unjustified losses. The facts presented by Deighton in his book lead the reader to a very interesting conclusion: it turns out that the concepts of “maybe”, “probably” and “somehow”, which have always been considered the three main pillars of Russian life, apply equally to the life of German, American, Japanese...