Max Hastings has been the editor of The Daily Telegraph and The Evening Standard. His most recent book, Inferno: The World at War, 1939–1945, was published in November. (February 2012)
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The Most Terrible of Hitler’s Creatures
February 9, 2012
Heinrich Himmler
by Peter Longerich, translated from the German by Jeremy Noakes and Lesley Sharpe
Hitler’s Hangman: The Life of Heydrich
by Robert Gerw
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War by Fops and Fools
June 9, 2011
The Crimean War: A History
by Orlando Figes
The Crimean War in the British Imagination
by Stefanie Markovits
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The Most Influential Weapon of Our Time
February 10, 2011
The Gun
by C. J. Chivers
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The Turkish-German Jihad
December 9, 2010
The Berlin–Baghdad Express: The Ottoman Empire and Germany’s Bid for World Power
by Sean McMeekin
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The Hard Truth About the Foreign Legion
October 14, 2010
Our Friends Beneath the Sands: The Foreign Legion in France’s Colonial Conquests, 1870–1935
by Martin Windrow
Voices of the Foreign Legion: The History of the World’s Most Famous Fighting Corps
by Adrian D. Gilbert
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Drawing the Wrong Lesson
March 11, 2010
Dangerous Games: The Uses and Abuses of History
by Margaret MacMillan
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A Very Chilly Victory
August 13, 2009
Masters and Commanders: How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941–1945
by Andrew Roberts
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A Farewell to Arms
June 11, 2009
The White War: Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915–1919
by Mark Thompson
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Germans Confront the Nazi Past
February 26, 2009
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
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The Most Evil Emperor
October 23, 2008
Hitler’s Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
by Mark Mazower
Hitler, the Germans, and the Final Solution
by Ian Kershaw
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Up Against ‘the Finest Soldiers in the World’
April 3, 2008
The Day of Battle: The War in Sicily and Italy, 1943–1944
by Rick Atkinson
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How They Won
November 22, 2007
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
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Our Battle with Britain
August 16, 2007
Cold War at 30,000 Feet: The Anglo-American Fight for Aviation Supremacy
by Jeffrey A. Engel