Paperback Archives - Max Hastings

Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar

April 7, 2025

THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER

A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year

‘Reads like a thriller… I couldn’t put Max Hastings’s new book down’ DAILY MAIL

‘Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier’ THE TIMES

Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace

December 13, 2023

‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail

‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times

Abyss: World on the Brink, The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962

November 9, 2022

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

Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942

November 9, 2022

The Sunday Times bestseller

‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL

Chastise: The Dambusters

November 9, 2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.

Vietnam: An Epic History of a Tragic War

November 9, 2022

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator

‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times

‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year

Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45

November 9, 2022

A companion volume to his bestselling ‘Armageddon’, Max Hastings’ account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.

The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

November 10, 2022

‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times

‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph

‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on Sunday

Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

November 9, 2022

The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war.