Operation PedestalThe Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942
‘The white-knuckle ride of Hastings’s gripping narrative …is a high-octane adventure served up with torpedoes, Stuka dive bombers and catastrophic U-book attacks … heart-stirring … memorable … and highly readable’
The Sunday Times
An epic, intimate new account of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II.
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Max Hastings
Sir Max Hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every British national newspaper. He now reviews regularly for the Sunday Times and New York Review of Books. He has published twenty-six books, among the most recent of which are THE SECRET WAR: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-45 (2015); CATASTROPHE: Europe Goes to War 1914 (2013); ALL HELL LET LOOSE (2011); DID YOU REALLY SHOOT THE TELEVISION ?: A Family Fable (2010); FINEST YEARS: Churchill As Warlord 1940-45 (2009); and ARMAGEDDON: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 (2004).