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MAX HASTINGS

Armageddon

For Penny, who makes it all possible

Tonight the sun goes down on more suffering than ever before in the world.

—Winston Churchill, 6 February 1945

We were living an existence in which people’s lives had absolutely no value. All that seemed important was to stay alive oneself.

—Lieutenant Gennady Ivanov, Red Army

INTRODUCTION

A dictionary defines Armageddon: “The site of the decisive battle on the Day of Judgement; hence, a final contest on a grand
...arguing that authors such as myself overrate the German performance. Some of the revisionists cannot be acquitted of nationalistic exuberance. An American military historian of my acquaintance observed justly, and without envy, that a best-selling colleague had “taken to raising monuments rather than writing history,” by producing a series of volumes which pay homage to the American fighting man.

A U.S. veteran of the north-west Europe campaign praises the works of Stephen Ambrose, saying:
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