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on military history and current events. Bomber Command earned the Somerset Maugham Prize for nonfiction; The Battle for the Falklands and Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy also received awards. For sixteen years, he was successively editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard, from which he retired in 2002. Hastings has published two memoirs, Going to the Wars (2000) about his experiences as a war correspondent, and Editor (2003) about his time running newspapers. He makes his home outside London and continues to contribute to newspapers on political and defense issues, as well as writing books.

ALSO BY MAX HASTINGS

MEMOIR

Going to the Wars (editor)

REPORTAGE

America 1968: The Fire This Time

Ulster 1969: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland

The Battle for the Falklands (with Simon Jenkins)

BIOGRAPHY

Montrose: The Kings’ Champion

Yoni: Hero of Entebbe

MILITARY HISTORY

Bomber Command

The Battle of Britain (with Len Deighton)

Das Reich

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

Victory in Europe

The Korean War

COUNTRYSIDE WRITING

Outside Days

Scattered Shots

ANTHOLOGY (EDITED)

The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes

THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK

PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF

Copyright © 2004 by Max Hastings

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Hastings, Max.

Armageddon: the battle for Germany, 1944–1945 / Max Hastings.—1st American ed.

p. cm.

1. World War, 1939–1945—Campaigns—Europe. I. Title

D743.H36 2004

940.54'21—dc22 2004046468

eISBN: 978-1-4000-4372-9

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