Arguments to reignite debate on Nazi defeat

SEVENTY years after it began, is there anything new to be written about World War II, which killed six people every second for the six years it lasted?

Andrew Roberts believes so, with his ambitiously titled Story of War, a new history of the Second World War.

The structure of the book is a simple narrative of selective campaigns, and the central thesis, which is initially convincing, is that Adolf Hitler lost the war rather than the Allies winning it.