Trauma Bonds
A fascinating journalistic exploration into the impact of intergenerational trauma on the descendants of both survivors and perpetrators
Second World War
Life Is Rosi: Grandma, Me and Our Diaries at 23
A fresh, funny family history following the lives of comedian Jess Robinson and her German Jewish grandmother Rosi
Battle of the Arctic: The Maritime Epic of World War Two
WINSTON CHURCHILL called it ‘the worst journey in the world’. But was even this telling quote, describing the nightmarish torment experienced while transporting military aid to northern Russia during World War Two, an understatement?
Wolfpack: Hitler’s U-boat War 1939-45
A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollections of the U-Boat crews themselves.
Sword: D-Day – Trial by Battle
‘The messy, dirty, bloody reality of Operation Overlord comes alive in Sword, Hastings’s portrait of the individual soldiers who risked their lives on the beaches of Normandy. He brings these men to life with sensitivity and beautiful prose’ THE TIMES
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
‘The best single-volume history of the war ever written’ DOMINIC SANDBOOK, SUNDAY TIMES
Naples 1944: War, Liberation and Chaos
An Aspects of History Best Book of the Year; An Engelsberg Ideas Best Book of the Year
‘A rigorous, myth-busting look at the city’s chaotic recovery in the wake of war and fascism’ Financial Times
Nineteen Steps
Love blooms in the darkest days…
Discover this heart-wrenching, life-affirming tale of first romance in the face of the tragic events of an often forgotten piece of WW2 history.
The Force: The Legendary Special Ops Unit and WWII’s Mission Impossible
December 1943. A German fort sits impregnable atop a mountain. Standing between the Allied forces and their path to Rome is a steep climb up a 200-foot cliff, in the snow, in the middle of the night.
Operation Biting: The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s Radar
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER
A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year
‘Reads like a thriller… I couldn’t put Max Hastings’s new book down’ DAILY MAIL
‘Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier’ THE TIMES
SAS: The Illustrated History of the SAS
The authorised illustrated history of the SAS by the number one bestselling author of Dunkirk, Joshua Levine. With never-before-seen photographs and unheard stories, this is the SAS’s wartime history in vivid and astonishing detail.