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Pritzker Military Library Literature Award

On Saturday 27 October 2012 at a dinner and ceremony at the Hilton Hotel in Chicago, Max was presented with the annual literary prize of the Pritzker Military Library, accompanied by a cheque for $100,000, for his contribution to military writing.   Read More

All Hell Let Loose – Bestselling Paperback

Thanks to all my readers in Britain who have so far bought over 250,000 copies of All Hell Let Loose and many more worldwide. Read More

Your feedback for the All Hell Let Loose paperback

All Hell Let Loose is now available to British readers in paperback and I hope many more of you will enjoy it as much as the hardback audience has done.  Read More

All Hell Let Loose audio books

All Hell Let Loose soon to be released in various audio formats. Read More

Martin Rubin reviews Inferno for The Chronicle

"If there is a contemporary British historian who is the chronicler of World War II, it would be Max Hastings. Read More

Washington Post reviews All Hell Let Loose

Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post 4th November: "Max Hastings begins his magisterial history of World War II with the simple declaration, “This is a book chiefly about human experience.” Nearly 500 pages later he expands upon that: Read More

Profile of Max from The Telegraph

What makes military historian Max Hastings keep on writing about the Second World War? The former Daily Telegraph editor has a voracious capacity for work, rising at 5am and often writing 5,000 words a day. His new book, All Hell Let Loose, runs to 675 pages. By Elizabeth Grice Read More

Welcome

Welcome to Max’s new website. Here you will find a host of information on Max’s work, including both archive and new material. Read More

Critical acclaim for All Hell Let Loose

(Published as INFERNO in the US) From the New York Times: “Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945” sums up and surpasses all his previous publications: a new, original and necessary history, in many ways the crowning of a life’s work Read More