British journalist and military historian who edited the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard and has written authoritative histories of WWII, Korea, and Vietnam.
Overlord: the definitive British account of D-Day and the Normandy campaign. The Korean War: the most authoritative English-language history of the conflict. Armageddon: the fall of Germany 1944-45. All Hell Let Loose: a one-volume history of WWII from the perspective of those who fought it. Editor of the Daily Telegraph (1986-95).
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