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Max will be talking about SWORD at the following events Monday 12th May, 7.30pmCHORLEYWOOD BOOKSHOPTickets Tuesday 13th May, 7pmHUNGERFORD BOOKSHOPTickets Thursday 15th May, 7:30pmTHE SPECTATOR – An Evening with Max Hastings, Central LondonTickets Thursday 22nd May, 5pm                                        BATH LITERARY FESTIVAL Tickets Friday 30th May, 11.30amHAY LITERARY… Read More

Events

Max will be talking about OPERATION BITING at the following events:Tuesday 21st May 7pm, Intelligence Squared Wednesday 22nd May 6.30pm, Waterstones, Nottingham Tuesday 28th May, 7.30pm, Topping, Bath                                            Friday 31st May, 2.30pm, Hay Festival Wednesday 19th June, 7.30pm, Topping, Edinburgh Thursday 20th June, 7.30pm, Topping, St Andrews Monday… Read More

Max Hastings at Sea

Ahead of the publication of Operation Pedestal in May, here is Max submerged aboard a Royal Navy submarine of War II vintage, at sea in 1966. Read More

Upcoming Events

This year Max will be talking about his book VIETNAM An Epic Tragedy 1945-1975 at the following venues:  Read More

A Message to My Readers

Well, everybody: Vietnam is done, finished, over.   Now, I am just crossing my fingers that when you all get to see it in the autumn, you find the story as fascinating as I do. Read More

Vietnam An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975

NEW BOOK COMING SEPTEMBER 2018 Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive conflict since the Second World War, first creating a humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Read More