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
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Imagining the Unimaginable. Max reviews ‘On War and Writing’
On War And Writing by Samuel Hynes (Chicago) Read More
Always Take Notes Podcast
In this episode, Simon speaks to Max Hastings, the best-selling military historian and erstwhile foreign correspondent and newspaper editor. 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
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
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
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
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
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
Guy Walters reviews The Secret War for Country Life
It is impossible to quantify the number of books that have been written about the Second World War. 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
Laurence Rees reviews The Secret War for the Sunday Times
The history of the secret intelligence conflict during the Second World War is so well trodden that the pickings for any new writer traversing this ground ought to be thin. Read More