As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals - The Times Literary Supplement

Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war - Financial Times

Splendid . . . A book anyone with an interest in modern warfare will want to read - The New York Times Book Review

Armageddon offers an impressively researched, beautifully crafted narrative of the Second World War's European finale -- Douglas Porch - The Times Literary Supplement

Hastings writes with authority, as well as humanity, about the realities of combat – the fear, smells, hunger, humiliation and the horrendous wounds inflicted . . . Every leader contemplating a military operation, for whatever reason, should read this book and take several deep breaths - The Wall Street Journal

A fascinating account -- Daily Telegraph

One of the finest historians of the Second World War -- Michael Burleigh

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of Th