1943: THE TIDE TURNS

1943: THE TIDE TURNS

Volume Five of The Second World War — A Seven-Volume History

By bestselling author and historian Quentin Drummond Anderson

By the beginning of 1943, the Second World War had reached its decisive moment. The Axis powers had conquered continents and brought much of the world to the edge of darkness. But now the tide was beginning to turn.

In the fifth volume of his sweeping seven-part history, Quentin Drummond Anderson tells the dramatic story of the year when Allied survival became Allied momentum.

From the frozen ruins of Stalingrad, where the surrender of the German Sixth Army shattered the myth of Wehrmacht invincibility, to Tunisia, where Axis power in Africa collapsed; from the vast armoured battle at Kursk to the invasion of Sicily and the fall of Mussolini — 1943 was the year Hitler's empire began its retreat.

At sea, the Allies finally gained the upper hand against the U-boat wolf packs in the Battle of the Atlantic. In the skies, bomber crews fought and died over Europe. In the shadows, the SOE, OSS and resistance networks waged a secret war against occupation. And in the Warsaw Ghetto, a doomed but heroic uprising became one of history's greatest acts of defiance.

Across the Pacific, American forces continued the long and bloody advance towards Japan, while at Tehran, Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin met for the first time to shape both victory and the world that would follow.

With the powerful storytelling of The Fearless Fifteen, Lions and Foxes and Warriors of the First Nations, Anderson brings together commanders and ordinary soldiers, grand strategy and human courage, triumph and tragedy.

1943 was not the end of the war. It was the year the world discovered how it would end.

The tide had turned — and it would not turn back.