Armageddon

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 is the stunning bestseller from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians.

As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals

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

Splendid . . . A book anyone with an interest in modern warfare will want to read

Armageddon offers an impressively researched, beautifully crafted narrative of the Second World War's European finale

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

A fascinating account

One of the finest historians of the Second World War

Max Hastings is a Sunday Times bestselling author who, between 1986 and 2002, served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph , then editor of the Evening Standard . In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television and he has won many awards for his journalism and books. His books include Editor and Going to the Wars , covering his journalistic experiences, and Overlord , Das Reich , Bomber Command , Operation Biting , Abyss , All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe . He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.