Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Praise for 'Nemesis' '"Nemesis is a triumph!provocative, insightful! impressive!Put all these elements together -- the ambition, insight, sureness of touch -- and you have a book of real quality'. Sunday Times 'Solid scholarship, a supreme understanding of strategy, stirring evocations of battles and trenchant opinion!Hastings proves himself once again to be the master of his material.' Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' 'Magisterial!it is truly cathartic to reach the end of the Second World War in Hastings's company.' Times 'Books of the Year' 'Brilliantly organised, compassionate but unsparing in its judgements!a monumental achievement.' George Steiner, Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' 'Hastings has covered a vast canvas with superbly realised detail, and has provided an excellent companion to Armageddon'. Daily Telegraph 'Absolutely excellent.' John Simpson, Observer 'Hastings is!a master of the sort of detail that illuminates the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes him such a readable historian.' Mail on Sunday "Brilliantly though Hastings lays out the strategic context, his real talent lies in his account of the 'terrible human experience' that it involved!This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century.' The Spectator 'An outstandingly gripping and authoritative account of the battle for Japan, and a monument to human bravery and savagery.' Daily Telegraph

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Praise for 'Nemesis' '"Nemesis is a triumph!provocative, insightful! impressive!Put all these elements together -- the ambition, insight, sureness of touch -- and you have a book of real quality'. Sunday Times 'Solid scholarship, a supreme understanding of strategy, stirring evocations of battles and trenchant opinion!Hastings proves himself once again to be the master of his material.' Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' 'Magisterial!it is truly cathartic to reach the end of the Second World War in Hastings's company.' Times 'Books of the Year' 'Brilliantly organised, compassionate but unsparing in its judgements!a monumental achievement.' George Steiner, Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' 'Hastings has covered a vast canvas with superbly realised detail, and has provided an excellent companion to Armageddon'. Daily Telegraph 'Absolutely excellent.' John Simpson, Observer 'Hastings is!a master of the sort of detail that illuminates the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes him such a readable historian.' Mail on Sunday "Brilliantly though Hastings lays out the strategic context, his real talent lies in his account of the 'terrible human experience' that it involved!This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century.' The Spectator 'An outstandingly gripping and authoritative account of the battle for Japan, and a monument to human bravery and savagery.' Daily Telegraph

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Praise for 'Nemesis' '"Nemesis is a triumph!provocative, insightful! impressive!Put all these elements together -- the ambition, insight, sureness of touch -- and you have a book of real quality'. Sunday Times 'Solid scholarship, a supreme understanding of strategy, stirring evocations of battles and trenchant opinion!Hastings proves himself once again to be the master of his material.' Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' 'Magisterial!it is truly cathartic to reach the end of the Second World War in Hastings's company.' Times 'Books of the Year' 'Brilliantly organised, compassionate but unsparing in its judgements!a monumental achievement.' George Steiner, Sunday Times 'Books of the Year' 'Hastings has covered a vast canvas with superbly realised detail, and has provided an excellent companion to Armageddon'. Daily Telegraph 'Absolutely excellent.' John Simpson, Observer 'Hastings is!a master of the sort of detail that illuminates the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes him such a readable historian.' Mail on Sunday "Brilliantly though Hastings lays out the strategic context, his real talent lies in his account of the 'terrible human experience' that it involved!This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century.' The Spectator 'An outstandingly gripping and authoritative account of the battle for Japan, and a monument to human bravery and savagery.' Daily Telegraph