History: specific events & topics

Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle

‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose’ THE TIMES

Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle

On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years.

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

A Times History Book of the Year 2022

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

A Times History Book of the Year 2022

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph

Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

A Times History Book of the Year 2022

From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ‘the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis’ Daily Telegraph

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