The Vietnam War: Filthy, hungry, riddled with bug bites
As a young journalist, Max Hastings reported on the Vietnam War. In an exclusive extract from his new book, he recounts the reality of life for the soldiers. Read More
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Bullets, bodies and late-night bars: Max Hastings’ adventures in Vietnam
Max Hastings was 24 and had never been to war. All that changed when he flew into battle-scarred Vietnam and witnessed the horror – and hedonism – of a war zone. Almost 50 years on, he’s written a book about the most controversial conflict of the 20th century and returns to the country to talk to survivors. Read More
Max Hastings on Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
Max Hastings introduces his new book Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975. Read More
Max Hastings introduces his reporting from Vietnam
Ahead of the release of his new book, VIETNAM, Max Hastings introduces some clips of his reporting from the war. Read More
Early Praise for Vietnam
‘This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical narrative.’
Tim O’Brien, Vietnam veteran and novelist Read More
Audio Extract: The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945
‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times Read More
Audio Extract: Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. Read More
A Message to My Readers
Well, everybody: Vietnam is done, finished, over. Now, I am just crossing my fingers that when you all get to see it in the autumn, you find the story as fascinating as I do. Read More
Vietnam An Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975
NEW BOOK COMING SEPTEMBER 2018
Vietnam became the Western world’s most divisive conflict since the Second World War, first creating a humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Read More