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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

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