"As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals" - The Times Literary Supplement

"Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war" - Financial Times

"Splendid . . . A book anyone with an interest in modern warfare will want to read" - The New York Times Book Review

"Armageddon offers an impressively researched, beautifully crafted narrative of the Second World War's European finale" - The Times Literary Supplement

"Hastings writes with authority, as well as humanity, about the realities of combat – the fear, smells, hunger, humiliation and the horrendous wounds inflicted . . . Every leader contemplating a military operation, for whatever reason, should read this book and take several deep breaths" - The Wall Street Journal