All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
Recommended for viewing on a tablet.
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history – World War II.
Social and cultural history
Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable
Max Hastings’s account of his family’s tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father’s most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.