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GREAT STORIES OF WAR AND PEACE

‘This is a book for readers who share my lifelong fascination with wars and those who have fought them through the ages’

‘This brilliant, wide-ranging anthology … the sheer variety of voices for which Hastings has found room is impressive … an unmissable collection‘
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‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down’
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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).