The world-famous British historian Martin Gilbert created a complete history of the Second World War, 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 Eastern, Pacific and African theaters of military operations, and also reflects the views of politicians, military leaders, journalists, civilians and ordinary soldiers. One of the first historical studies of World War II to portray the Holocaust as an integral part of the conflict, this book features testimonies from survivors of the occupation, behind enemy lines, and from minorities. Martin Gilbert managed to create a three-dimensional 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 the Second World War, which was repeatedly reprinted in English, and also appeared in other languages : Chinese, Czech, German, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. The publication contains 102 maps and more than 100 black and white archival photographs.