Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45
A companion volume to his bestselling ‘Armageddon’, Max Hastings’ account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.
War & defence operations
The General: The Classic WWI Tale of Leadership
The book John Kelly reads every time he gets a promotion to remind him of ‘the perils of hubris, the pitfalls of patriotism and duty unaccompanied by critical thinking’
The most vivid, moving – and devastating – word-portrait of a World War One British commander ever written, here re-introduced by Max Hastings.
Fighter Heroes of WWI: The untold story of the brave and daring pioneer airmen of the Great War (Text Only)
The first heroes of the air.
Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe
A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.
Warsaw 1920: Lenin’s Failed Conquest of Europe
The dramatic and little-known story of how, in the summer of 1920, Lenin came within a hair’s breadth of shattering the painstakingly constructed Versailles peace settlement and spreading Bolshevism to western Europe.
Road of Bones: The Siege of Kohima 1944 – The Epic Story of the Last Great Stand of Empire
(This ebook contains a limited number of illustrations. Maps are best viewed on a tablet.)
The epic story of one of the most savage battles of the Second World War.
Cromwell’s Blessing
The price for a country. The price for a King. The price for a marriage. The dramatic story of Tom Neave continues…
Target Tirpitz: X-Craft, Agents and Dambusters – The Epic Quest to Destroy Hitler’s Mightiest Warship: Unabridged edition
Target Tirpitz is gripping WW2 storytelling at its best and a return to the RAF territory of Patrick Bishop’s bestselling Bomber Boys and Fighter Boys.
Collins Classics – Henry IV, Part I & Part II (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
The Blitz: The British Under Attack: Unabridged edition
From the author of ‘Wartime’ and ‘The Thirties’comes an outstanding history of the most prolonged and devastating attack ever endured by Britain’s civilian population – the Blitz.