Winston Churchill said about World War II that it was a war that should never have happened. This book was written with the ambition to help ensure that another such war does not... occur again. To prevent humanity from returning to a similar state of madness.

World War II was the most outrageous and simultaneously tragic adventure of human life. Never before had so much political, military, and scientific intelligence, so much bravery, and such a quantity of living and material resources been used to "write" this Epic of Destruction. "The passion for interest became a disaster." A disaster that extends through various paths and in various ways to our own time.

To halt this extension, it is not enough to have fragmentary knowledge but rather complete knowledge of the events. That is why we present the facts from the beginning to the end. From start to finish and across the entire planet. However, this book does not overflow with facts; it overflows with reflection, the highlighting of causes, triggers, and consequences.

The author, a child of that great war, extols heroism but does not idealize it. With this book, although it is a war book, he emphasizes the heroism of peace. It does not provide stimuli or pretexts for new wars. (From the presentation on the back cover of the book)

(Volume A concerns the situations and events that led to the war up until the Battle of the Desert (1943). Volume B concerns the Battle of Greece. Volume C concerns the war in Russia. Volume D concerns the landing in Sicily-Italy, the landing in Normandy, and the collapse of the fascist and Hitlerian regime. An appendix examines the political and diplomatic events)