Plunder
$31.99
- Paperback
448 pages
- Release Date
6 October 2026
Summary
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people – British, American and German – in a series of great events in which some distinguished themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes.
The book takes its title from Montgomery’s ‘Operation Plunder’, the 23 March 1945 crossing of the …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780008778248 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0008778248 |
| Author: | Max Hastings |
| Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Imprint: | William Collins |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 448 |
| Release Date: | 6 October 2026 |
| Weight: | 600g |
| Dimensions: | 32mm x 153mm x 234mm |
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Critics Review
‘This book gives military history a good name … In Plunder, his devastating account of the final weeks of the Second World War, Max Hastings brings the conflict to life in such detail it leaves you reeling … Meticulously researched, constructed with a great journalist’s instinct for switching from big to small and back again, and written with a keen eye for human foibles … He covers an enormous amount of ground with admirable dexterity, from the haunting scenes as British troops liberate the Bergen-Belsen camp to the blackly comic chaos as Hitler’s short-lived successor, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz, struggles to impose his authority on the quarrelsome Nazi elite’
Dominic Sandbrook, The Times
‘Hastings is our greatest living chronicler of the Second World War’
Daily Express
PRAISE FOR SWORD:
‘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 transporting of 150,000 troops across the Channel in total secrecy and the feats they did that day is a story we never tire of – and Max Hastings tells it exceedingly well. His is one of the most reliable brands in popular history and Sword meets his usual standards. A cracking tale in the hands of a practised storyteller’
Spectator
‘D-Day was one of the British army’s finest hours, perhaps the finest. The author has matched that hour admirably’
Country Life
Max Hastings
Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict. Between 1986 and 2002, he served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, and then as editor of the Evening Standard.
He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. His most recent best-sellers, translated around the world, include All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe, and The Secret War.
Max is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London. He was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
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