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RAVE REVIEWS FOR OPERATION PEDESTAL

‘Outstanding … this book like all his others … is a cracker. With his usual combination of sensitivity to human suffering and superb dramatic instinct, Hastings has given  us a gripping tale … The immediacy of this book obliterates the cold detachment that time’s passage usually allows …We feel in… Read More

MAX HASTINGS INTRODUCES REPORTING FROM OPERATION PEDESTAL

Max Hastings at Sea

Ahead of the publication of Operation Pedestal in May, here is Max submerged aboard a Royal Navy submarine of War II vintage, at sea in 1966. Read More

WE NEED TO TOUGHEN UP FOR THE PAIN AHEAD

The British people must accept that coronavirus is not going away any time soon and we shall just have to work with it. Read More

Max on Samuel Pepys’ brilliant take on the 1665 London plague

CORONAVIRUS: Max is self-isolating in Berkshire, working on his new book PEDESTAL The Fleet’s Battle To Malta 1942.  You may like to read his essay published in The Times of London last month, about how Samuel Pepys responded to the plague of 1665. Read More

RAVE REVIEWS IN THE US FOR CHASTISE

Reviews are in for Chastise in America. Read More

Professor Sir Michael Howard

Below is Max’s tribute to Britain’s foremost historian, Professor Sir Michael Howard OM, CH, MC, FBA, which he delivered on 25 February 2020 at a memorial service held at King’s College, London, following Sir Michael’s death on 29 November. Read More

Rave Reviews for Chastise

'Max’s Hastings’s CHASTISE is a virtuoso performance ... Read mo

EXPLODING THE DAMBUSTERS MYTH

There were dams; a dog with an embarrassing name; a march that everybody over 40 can hum.  Read More