Family memoir.

Account of Winston Churchill`s role in World War II.

The battle for Japan that ended many months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions of China. There is no finer chronicler of these events than the great military historian Max Hastings, whose gripping account explores not just the global strategic objectives of the USA, Japan and Britain but also the first-hand experiences of the airmen, sailors and soldiers of all the countries who participated in the Far East and the war in the Pacific.

The big moments in the story are chosen to reflect a wide variety of human experience: the great naval battle of Leyte Gulf; the under-reported war in China; the re-conquest of Burma by the British Army under General Slim; MacArthur’s follies in the Philippines; the Marines on Iwo Jima and Okinawa; LeMay’s fire-raising Super-fortress assaults on Japan; the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki; the kamikaze pilots of Japan; the almost unknown Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria in the last days of the war, as Stalin hastened to gather the spoils; and the terrible final acts across Japanese-occupied Asia.

This is classic, epic history – both in the content and the manner of telling.

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Country Fair is a bedside book for everyone who loves the British countryside, and especially fishing and shooting. Max Hastings describes himself as 'an eager duffer' at both. He writes of all manner of experiences with rod, gun and dogs in every corner of this island, creating a portrait of field sports that will summon happy memories for everyone who shares his passions. He also reflects about the future of the countryside amid all the pressures it faces today - political, social, and environmental. The Labour government's ban on hunting has created bitter tensions between town and country which will not go away. A struggle has begun to preserve rural traditions from urban political intolerance, which is likely to continue for decades to come.

Yet the author remains optimistic that we can sustain the great heritage of the countryside, if we are willing to fight for it. The challenge is to persuade Britain's city-dwellers that those who live amid the streams, woodlands and green fields are their best custodians. Much of this book is based upon Max Hastings's writings in The Field. It should delight not only fishers and shooters, but everyone who cherishes Britain's countryside. It offers lyrical tales of rural life, and some hard words about the battle to preserve it.

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What makes some warriors perform extraordinary deeds on the battlefield? For this study of courage, fame and their consequences, the bestselling military historian Max Hastings has chosen fourteen men and one woman whose lives illustrate a wide variety of battlefield experience by land, sea and air in the 19th and 20th centuries. Some of his subjects succeeded triumphantly, others failed. Some found happiness and others only melancholy. All their stories are fascinating. WARRIORS is an exhilarating study of human behaviour, rather than military tactics; its gallery of striking - sometimes startling - portraits will fascinate any reader who wishes to contrast the romance and reality of battle.

The climactic final months of the Second World War in Europe; the destruction of Hitler's Germany. Hastings has mined the archives and interviewed over 170 witnesses in five countries to piece together a saga that is at once fascinating military history and one of the great human tragedies of the twentieth century.
An awesome achievement and an amazing work of history from the author of the acclaimed Overlord, Bomber Command and Das Reich.

ISBN: 0 333 90836 8

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On 25 June 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the communist north launched one of the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts of this century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam. This study draws on first-hand accounts of those who fought on both sides to produce this reassessment of the Korean War.

ISBN: 0 330 39288 3

This is a celebration of the countryside, and fishing and shooting, in particular. The author relates experiences of shooting pheasants in Yorkshire and seeking salmon in Scotland, alongside essays on some of the major issues facing Britain's rural areas

ISBN: 0 333 77103 6

Somerset Maugham Prize

An account which traces the development of area bombing, using documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of World War II.

ISBN: 0 330 39204 2

Yorkshire Post Book of the Year

A chronicle of the call to arms and an informed analysis of the Falklands War.

ISBN: 0 330 35284 9

Within days of the D-Day landings, the "Das reich" 2nd SS Panzer Division marched North through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the Russian Front, 15,000 men with tanks and artillery, they were hounded for every mile of their march by saboteurs of the Resistance and agents of the Allied Special Forces. Along their route they took reprisals so savage they will live forever in the chronicles of the most appalling atrocities of war.

ISBN: 0 330 48389 7

Yorkshire Post Book of the Year

On 6th June 1944, the British and American forces staged the greatest amphibious landing in history to begin operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. In this book Max Hastings overturns a host of popular misconceptions about the invasion.

ISBN: 0 7181 2326 3