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
Farthest Field: An Indian Story of the Second World War
Described as ‘a masterpiece’ by critics, this remarkable book tells the story of war through the lives and deaths of a single family. Absolutely unforgettable new writing.
If you loved The English Patient or Rohinton Mistry’s Fine Balance or Katherine Boo’s Behind the Beautiful Forevers, you will love this book.
To Fight Alongside Friends: The First World War Diary of Charlie May
The First World War Diaries of Manchester Pals Captain Charlie May – written and kept in secret and published now for the first time. A born storyteller, Charlie May’s vivid eye for detail and warm good humour brings his experience in the trenches (and the experience of millions of ordinary men like him) to life for a 21st-century readership.
Going After Cacciato
Winner of the National Book Award, ‘Going After Cacciato’ captures the peculiar mixture of horror and hallucination that marked the Vietnam War, this strangest of wars.
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies and Three Battles
The Sunday Times Number 1 Bestseller
‘A fabulous story, superbly told … cannot be bettered’ Max Hastings
‘Some battles change nothing. Waterloo changed almost everything.’
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.
SOE Manual: How to be an Agent in Occupied Europe
The actual course given to all secret agents in SOE before working behind enemy lines. It includes everything you needed to know to go undercover – from documents, cover stories and how to live off the land to how to get through an interrogation.
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.
The Mulberry Empire
The bestselling novel from the Man Booker Prize shortlisted author of The Northern Clemency and King of the Badgers.
Collins Classics – Henry IV, Part I & Part II (Collins Classics)
HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.
Amedeo: The True Story of an Italian’s War in Abyssinia
War-time love story set in Abyssinia, Eritrea and the Yemen 1935-1945. Amedeo Guillet is still alive and living in County Meath, Ireland. Khadija is lost.
A Genius for War: A Life of General George S. Patton, Volume 1
Patton: A Genius for War is a full-fledged portrait of an extraordinary American that reveals the complex and contradictory personality that lay behind the swashbuckling and brash facade.