Book of the day: Sword by Max Hastings
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Publishers and military historians don't allow a significant anniversary to pass without offering something new. It is 80 years since VE Day, marking Germany's surrender in World War II. Sir Max Hastings has chosen as his contribution a 'micro-history' of the British army's role in the Normandy invasion of June
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