Max Hastings

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Thanks to all my readers in Britain who have so far bought over 250,000 copies of All Hell Let Loose and many more worldwide.  Here you will find lots of information on my work.

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LATEST NEWS

It’s finished!  Max has delivered to HarperCollins in London and Knopf in New York, along with other publishers around the world, the manuscript of his new book CATASTROPHE: EUROPE GOES TO WAR 1914.  This will be published in the autumn of 2013, and is expected to attract as much attention – and perhaps controversy – as did ALL HELL LET LOOSE/INFERNO.  Watch this space for more news in the next month or two, when we shall put up a tape of Max talking about CATASTROPHE. Max will be presenting a major 60 minute TV documentary for BBC2, to be transmitted next spring, about the outbreak of war in 1914.

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Pritzker Military Library Literature Award

On Saturday 27 October at a dinner and ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Max was presented with the annual literary prize of the Pritzker Military Library, accompanied by a cheque for $100,000, for his contribution to military writing.   Read more

Upcoming Events

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Reviews for All Hell Let Loose

“Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945” sums up and surpasses all his previous publications: a new, original and necessary history, in many ways the crowning of a life’s work …. Hastings has a sober, unromantic and realistic view of battle that puts him into a different category from the armchair generals whose gung-ho, schoolboy attitude to war fills the pages of a great majority of military histories. Read more

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All Hell Let Loose

Max Hastings introduces his new book, All Hell Let Loose.

From D-Day to Victory in EuropeDid You Really Shoot the Television?Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45All Hell Let Loose2011 Ruttenberg Lecture

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I have written All Hell Let Loose (published in US as Inferno) with two ideas in mind: first, to try to offer some of my own thoughts about great issues which I haven’t discussed in earlier books, and about which I hope that I may have something new to bring to the party- to complete my personal cycle about the Second World War, if you like. To give a few examples: it seems to me a remarkable paradox, that while the German army fought most of its battles brilliantly well- much better than the allies- its efforts…

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