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Referenced as having written books on Churchill and the Second World War, cited regarding Churchill's strategic use of invasion rhetoric to motivate British public and how Hitler's bombing campaign was counterproductive

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Referenced as containing a quote from an officer called John Horsfall about the national mood of defiance after Dunkirk

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Referenced as a book on the Second World War. The speaker quotes from it that the Allied campaign in Norway 'was characterized by utter moral ignobility and military incompetence' and later quotes Hastings again about Churchill's schemes being frustrated by lack of means.

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Explicitly mentioned as 'in his book, Catastrophe, Max Hastings, tells an awful story' about a woman who loses her three-year-old son at the train station during the evacuation of Przemysl.

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Tom mentions reading this book, quoting Hastings' description of the Austro-Hungarian army and later citing stories from it about the Eastern Front.

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Referenced multiple times as a source for WWI accounts, including quoting a soldier named Paul Hubb from Württemberg and telling the story of the German 143rd Infantry advancing down the Menin Road

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Referenced multiple times throughout the episode as a source for WWI history. Explicitly mentioned as 'Max Hastings' book' when discussing details about the Battle of the Marne, including quotes about Lieutenant Lionel Tennyson, abandoned German vehicles, and the gunner Paul Lantier. Max Hastings is a well-known military historian.

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Referenced multiple times throughout the episode. Dominic cites Max Hastings' account from this book about the Battle of Vieton, and later quotes Hastings calling Sir John French 'a poltroon' and describing Asquith's handling of the war.

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Explicitly called 'Max Hastings's brilliant book' - used to describe scenes of German infantry being cut down at Liège and later to list German atrocities in Belgian villages

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Referenced for presenting Serbian PM Pasic as 'a crafty old Serbian peasant' in his book about this period (title not specified in transcript).

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Reference to 'his memoirs' describing Max Hastings walking into Stanley as the first British person to enter after the Argentine surrender

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Andrew Preston mentions Max Hastings' recent book on the Vietnam War, describing it as 'a fantastic book' that argues the US basically made a mistake by taking over the French role in Vietnam in 1954-55.