Max Hastings

Max Hastings has been an editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His new book, Winston's War: Churchill as Warlord, 1940–45, will be published in the spring. (August 2009)

From the Review

August 13, 2009: A Very Chilly Victory

Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945 by Andrew Roberts

June 11, 2009: A Farewell to Arms

The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919 by Mark Thompson

February 26, 2009: Germans Confront the Nazi Past

Germany and the Second World War, Volume IX/I: German Wartime Society, 1939–1945: Politicization, Disintegration, and the Struggle for Survival edited for the Research Institute for Military History, Potsdam, Germany, by Jörg Echternkamp, translated from the German by Derry Cook-Radmore and others

October 23, 2008: The Most Evil Emperor

Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe by Mark Mazower

Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution by Ian Kershaw

April 3, 2008: Up Against 'the Finest Soldiers in the World'

The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944 by Rick Atkinson

November 22, 2007: How They Won

Partners in Command: George Marshall and Dwight Eisenhower in War and Peace by Mark Perry

15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Savedthe American Century by Stanley Weintraub

August 16, 2007: Our Battle with Britain

Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy by Jeffrey A. Engel