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Praise for Max Hastings Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975 "We've seen a shelf-load of histories, analyses, memoirs, and novels on Vietnam. But what Hastings does in Vietnam is pull all these genres together in a highly readable and vivid narrative that, I think, will become the standard on the war for many years to come." -- Tom Bowman, NPR.org The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 "Monumental. . . . [ The Secret War ] embodies a herculean research effort [and] a real page turner." -- Josef Joffe, New York Times Book Review "[Max Hastings] brilliantly depicts the byzantine world of intelligence agencies, with dry humor and perception." -- Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945 "A new, original, necessary history, in many ways the crowning of a life's work. A professional war correspondent who has personally witnessed armed conflict in Vietnam, the Falkland Islands and other danger zones, Hastings has a sober, unromantic and realistic view of battle that puts him into a different category from the armchair generals whose gung-ho, schoolboy attitude to war fills the pages of a great majority of military histories. He writes with grace, fluency and authority. . . . Inferno is superb." -- Richard J. Evans, New York Times Book Review "If there is a contemporary British historian who is the chronicler of World War II, it would be Max Hastings. . . . [ Inferno ] is a true distillation of everything this historian has learned from a lifetime of scholarship--and more important, of real thought--on what he calls 'the greatest and most terrible event in human history.'" -- Martin Rubin, San Francisco Chronicle