Sir Max Hastings, author of numerous books including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Going to the Wars and Das Reich, was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, and then edited the Evening Standard for six years. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won many awards for his books and journalism, particularly his work in the south Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism. Sir Simon Jenkins is an award-winning journalist and author of several books on the politics, history and architecture of England. He writes for the Guardian and the Sunday Times, as well as broadcasting for the BBC. He is the co-author of The Battle for the Falklands with Max Hastings. Jenkins was knighted for services to journalism in 2004.
Skilfully woven with Simon Jenkins' sharp political passages are Max Hastings' wonderful dispatches * Sunday Times * Excellent * Guardian * An excellent account of the war * Financial Times * Stirring, impressively detailed * Time Magazine * Authoritative and very readable * Newsweek * Will probably endure as the standard history of the campaign. * New York Times *