Articles

We need to tell the truth about defence

Defence secretary Gavin Williamson is said to be threatening the prime minister with a mutiny, perhaps even with a vote against the autumn budget, unless his department is given £20 billion towards filling its cash chasm. Read More

Splendid Isolation. Max reviews ‘Dunkirk’ and ‘Alone’.

Dunkirk written and directed by Christopher Nolan  Alone by Michael Korda Read More

What’s New About the War?

Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge by Antony Beevor, Viking Eisenhower’s Guerrillas by Benjamin F.Jones, OUP Read More

Imagining the Unimaginable. Max reviews ‘On War and Writing’

On War And Writing by Samuel Hynes (Chicago)       Read More

Max reviews ‘The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918’ by Peter Hart

The Last Battle: Endgame on the Western Front, 1918 by Peter Hart (Profile) Read More

It’s an unholy mess – but here’s why I’m voting to stay in the EU

Max gives his personal view on the EU referendum in the Daily Mail. Read More

Paul Gannon Reviews The Secret War

Max Hastings takes on a massive subject in his latest book, the role played by intelligence and secret operations in the second world war. Read More

Sinclair McKay reviews The Secret War for The Spectator

Spying is a branch of philosophy, although you would never guess it from that expression on Daniel Craig's face.   Read More

Andrew Lycett reviews The Secret War for The Daily Telegraph

Max Hastings is tickled by the irony that Alan Turing, the brilliant mathematician codebreaker at Bletchley Park during the Second World War, has emerged as a celebrated secret warrior, when until recently he was virtually unknown outside his professional circles. Read More