GOING TO THE WARS

ALL HELL LET LOOSE : THE WORLD AT WAR 1939-45: VOLUME I

A narrative history of the Second World War from one of our finest historians. A book which depicts what the war was like to live through - whether you were a starving child in Leningrad, a soldier in North Africa, or a civilian in Dresden. Continued in Volume II (9442)

ALL HELL LET LOOSE: THE WORLD AT WAR 1939-45: VOLUME II

Following on from Volume I (9441), Max Hastings' study of the greatest and most terrible event in history continues in the second part of his epic book. There are vivid descriptions of the tragedies and triumphs of a host of ordinary people, in uniform and out of it, in an 'everyman's story'.

CHASTISE

Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in Germany by the RAF’s 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain’s legend. Max Hastings vividly describes the evolution of Wallis’ bomb, and of the squadron which broke the dams at the cost of devastating losses. But he also portrays in harrowing detail those swept away by the torrents, in one of the most extraordinary episodes in British history.

DID YOU REALLY SHOOT THE TELEVISION?

This book portrays the childhood of journalist Max Hastings, fraught with rows and explosions, in which the sudden death of a television set was only one highlight. His story will make a lot of people laugh and perhaps a few cry.

THE SECRET WAR

Max Hastings examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II and the impact of spies, code breakers and partisan operations on events. With accounts from British, American, German, Russian and Japanese sources he tells the story of a secret war waged unceasingly by men and women whose actions profoundly influenced the outcome.

VIETNAM: AN EPIC HISTORY OF A DIVISIVE WAR 1945-1975

Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create this epic narrative of a huge struggle.