Join long-time friend of the bookshop, MAX HASTINGS, to talk about his incredible new book, _SWORD: D-DAY - TRIAL BY BATTLE_. Please note, any event vouchers can be redeemed against the price of a copy of _Sword_ from publication date on the 8th May. _On 6 June 1944 when the allied armies landed on D-Day, the Second World War had already lasted almost five years._ _Yet many of the British and American troops who invaded Normandy were virgin soldiers, never before committed to battle. They quit summer England to face within hours a storm of machine-gun and mortar fire. They witnessed scenes, above all of sudden death, such as no exercise had prepared them for._ _This is D-Day as you have never heard it told before, with the blend of narrative, analysis and human insight that made Max Hastings' last book Operation Biting a Sunday Times No.1 bestseller._ MAX HASTINGS is the author of over thirty books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are _Chastise_, _Operation Pedestal_ and _Abyss_, bestsellers translated around the world.