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Praise for Max Hastings

Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975

"We've seen a shelf-load of histories, analyses, memoirs, and novels on Vietnam. But what Hastings does in Vietnam is pull all these genres together in a highly readable and vivid narrative that, I think, will become the standard on the war for many years to come."
-- Tom Bowman, NPR.org

The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945

"Monumental. . . . [The Secret War] embodies a herculean research effort [and] a real page turner."
-- Josef Joffe, New York Times Book Review

"[Max Hastings] brilliantly depicts the byzantine world of intelligence agencies, with dry humor and perception."
-- Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books

Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945

"A new, original, necessary history, in many ways the crowning of a life's work. A professional war correspondent who has personally witnessed armed conflict in Vietnam, the Falkland Islands and other danger zones, Hastings has a sober, unromantic and realistic view of battle that puts him into a different category from the armchair generals whose gung-ho, schoolboy attitude to war fills the pages of a great majority of military histories. He writes with grace, fluency and authority. . . . Inferno is superb."
-- Richard J. Evans, New York Times Book Review

"If there is a contemporary British historian who is the chronicler of World War II, it would be Max Hastings. . . . [Inferno] is a true distillation of everything this historian has learned from a lifetime of scholarship--and more important, of real thought--on what he calls 'the greatest and most terrible event in human history.'"
-- Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle