Armageddon

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 TelegraphOne of the finest historians of the Second World War – Michael Burleigh, historian and author of Day of the Assassins

Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author who, between 1986 and 2002, served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won many awards for his journalism and books, of which the most recent are Operation Biting, Abyss, All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.