for US release Knopf ) Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45 (London, HarperPress, 2009) (re-titled Winston's War: Churchill, 1940–1945 for US release by Knopf, 2010, ) All Hell Let Loose: The World At War 1939–1945 (London, HarperPress, 29 September 2011) (re-titled Inferno: The World At War, 1939–1945 for US release by Knopf, 1 November 2011, . 729 pp) Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 (London, Knopf Press, 24 September 2013) , 640 pp. The Secret War: Spies, Codes And Guerrillas 1939–45 (London: William Collins, 2015) Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy 1945–1975 (William Collins, 2018) Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943 (William Collins, 2019) Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 (William Collins, 2021) Abyss: The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 (William Collins, 2022) Countryside writing Outside Days (Michael Joseph, 1989) Scattered Shots (Macmillan, 1999) Country Fair (HarperCollins, October 2005) . 288 pp Anthology The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes (ed.) (Oxford University Press, 1985) Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace (William Collins, 2021) Journalism Filmography Wellington Bomber, 2010 BBC documentary The Necessary War, 2014 BBC documentary on the Centennial of the beginning of the First World War. See also Clan Macdonald of Sleat References External links Profile, debretts.com; accessed 2 April 2014. Archive of Hastings' articles, The Guardian; accessed 2 April 2014. Interview re "Editor: A Memoir", guardian.co.uk; accessed 2 April 2014. Profile, pritzkermilitary.org; accessed 2 April 2014. Interview on Inferno, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 16 November 2011; accessed 2 April 2014. Winston's War, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 17 March 2010; accessed 2 April 2014. Interview on Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45, Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 1 May 2008; accessed 2 April 2014 Interview on Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945], Pritzker Military Museum & Library, 30 November 2004; accessed 2 April 2014. Living people 1945 births People from Hungerford People educated at Charterhouse School Alumni of University College, Oxford British people of the Falklands War English male journalists English military writers English newspaper editors English columnists Writers from London Fellows of King's College London Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature Fellows of the Royal Historical Society The Guardian journalists English war correspondents London Evening Standard people Knights Bachelor 20th-century English writers 21st-century English writers