Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 - Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books, including Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945, and Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945. He spent his early career as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and various newspapers, then as editor of Britain's Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph . He has received numerous awards for both his books and his journalism. He lives in the English countryside west of London.