A corker that will delight any armchair warrior | London Evening Standard

A corker that will delight any armchair warriorNemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 by Max Hastings (HarperPress, £25).

Perhaps Sir Max is on more unfamiliar ground here than he was in his superb study of the end of the war in Europe, Armageddon, but nonetheless nobody writes more driving narrative history and this one's a corker that will delight any armchair warrior