Maks Hejstings je trideset pet godina istraživao različite strane ovog sukoba i o tome napisao brojne knjige. Sada nam prvi put donosi veličanstvenu dvotomnu istoriju čitavog rata. Kroz zapanjujuće podrobne priče običnih ljudi – vojnika, mornara i vazduhoplovaca, britanskih domaćica i indijskih seljaka, esesovskih ubica i stanovnika Lenjingrada – Hejstings stvara jedinstveno intiman portret sveta u ratu. Izuzetno temeljan i širok, Pakao je elegantno napisan i krajnje ubedljiv. Iznad svega, iznosi novo i suštinsko shvatanje najvećeg i najkrvavijeg događaja dvadesetog veka. „Nema druge opšte istorije rata koja u sebi tako uspešno spaja mučne lične pojedinosti i suštinske strategijske argumente.“ The Times „U ovom velikom delu, kruni deset vrhunskih knjiga koje je napisao o Drugom svetskom ratu, ser Maks Hejstings ne štedi čitaoca slikajući čisto krvavo divljaštvo najgoreg rata koji je svet video. Ova veličanstena knjiga opčinjuje čitaoca od prve do poslednje strane.“ Sunday Telegraph
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Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar. Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year.After leaving Oxford University, Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent, and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard. Among his bestselling books Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize. After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. He has won many awards for his journalism, including Journalist of The Year and What the Papers Say Reporter of the Year for his work in the South Atlantic in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He stood down as editor of the Evening Standard in 2001 and was knighted in 2002. His monumental work of military history, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 was published in 2005. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. Sir Max Hastings honoured with the $100,000 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
