‘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
THE SUNDAY TIMES #1 BESTSELLER
A Times Best History Book of the Year; A Waterstones Best Book of the Year
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‘Hastings is a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier’ THE TIMES
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Shortlisted for Fortnum & Mason Cookery Book of the Year
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