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About the Author
Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Reviews
As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals * The Times Literary Supplement *
Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war * Financial Times *
Splendid . . . A book anyone with an interest in modern warfare will want to read * The New York Times Book Review *
Armageddon offers an impressively researched, beautifully crafted narrative of the Second World War's European finale -- Douglas Porch * The Times Literary Supplement *
Hastings writes with authority, as well as humanity, about the realities of combat - the fear, smells, hunger, humiliation and the horrendous wounds inflicted . . . Every leader contemplating a military operation, for whatever reason, should read this book and take several deep breaths * The Wall Street Journal *
A fascinating account -- Daily Telegraph
One of the finest historians of the Second World War -- Michael Burleigh



Book Information
ISBN 9781035022847
Author Sir Max Hastings
Format Paperback
Page Count 720
Imprint Pan Books
Publisher Pan Macmillan