PLUNDER
THE LAST OF THE WAR IN EUROPE, 1945
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people British, American and German, in a series of great events in which some distinguished themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes.
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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 is now a columnist for The Times of London and for Bloomberg Inci and reviews regularly for the Sunday Times. He has published thirty books, among the most recent of which are ABYSS: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (2022); OPERATION PEDESTAL: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 (2021); CHASTISE: The Dambusters Story 1943 (2019); VIETNAM An Epic History of a Tragic War (2018).