Sir Max Hastings

In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas.

From the best-selling military historian, a thrilling account of the valiant British role in the D-Day invasion.

The 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation....

On 25 June, 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century....

Within Western culture, World War Two continues to exercise an extraordinary fascination for generations unborn when it took place. The obvious explanation is that it was the greatest and most terrible event in human history....

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. The famous D-Day landings of 6 June, 1944, marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe....

From Max Hastings comes a collection of talks and lectures exploring the wars of the 20th century with the verve, insight and originality that has made him a number one bestselling historian....

It was the first war we could not win....

Soldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting best-selling historian Max Hastings’ lifetime of studying war....

The Falklands War was one of the strangest in British history - 28,000 men sent to fight for a tiny relic of empire 8,000 miles from home....

The complete magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War....

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War....

Examining the espionage and intelligence stories in World War II on a global basis, bringing together the British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories....

Armageddon tells the story of the climatic months of the Second World War and the destruction of Hitler's Germany....

In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a personal decision that at all costs, the ‘island fortress’ must be saved....

A companion volume to his bes-tselling ‘Armageddon’, Max Hastings’ account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history....

Preeminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before....

A chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war....

Within days of the D-Day landings, the 'Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe....

The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings....