by Max Hastings
Max Hastings is my new favourite historian. It seems he trumps [a:Antony Beevor|3407|Antony Beevor|http://d.gr-assets.com/authors/1338559644p2/3407.jpg], although I'll have to dig up Beevor and poke around again. An intense, heavily researched work of the last year of Germany's war, wherein Hastings...
[b:Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945|55404|Armageddon The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945|Max Hastings|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1320477380s/55404.jpg|53993] is the definition of a 5 Star rating. Max Hastings chronicles the final battles to defeat Nazi Germany. He starts the story in A...
Max Hastings is one of the premier historians of the Second World War. Unlike Stephen Ambrose, who , while a very readable historian -- even knowing whom to plagarize (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_E._Ambrose#Plagiarism_controversy) -- is as much a cheerleader as historian, Hastings presents ...