books by Max Hastings     books:     Max Hastings      Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 Max Hastings Knopf, 2008 A Brilliant Account of the Final Year of the Pacific War For those of us who fought in the Pacific during World War II, one wonders what more can be said that has not been previously written about by dozens of authors, from grand overall strategic reviews to those of individuals. The British journalist-historian Max ...             Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945 Max Hastings Vintage, 2005 Armageddon The author, as a World War II historian, ranks with the best.I would recommend that anyone who is a student of of history read his books and enjoy them.             Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield Max Hastings Vintage, 2007 Fascinating (A historical mystery biography) Ever wonder how heroes are made? Max Hastings' new book Warriors offers you fifteen individual concise biographies of war heroes from the Napoleonic wars through the Yom Kippur War. The fourteen men and one women included in this ...             The Second World War: A World In Flames (Essential Histories Specials) Max Hastings Osprey Publishing, 2004 The period from 1939 to 1945 saw some of the most devastating events in living memory. Existing in the shadows of fear, sacrifice, deprivation and uncertainty, soldiers and civilians of all nationalities were driven to extremes of selfless loyalty, dogged determination or bitter cruelty by the demands of a world at war. Bringing the experience of ...             The Battle for the Falklands Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins W. W. Norton & Company, 1984 Definitive history of the Falklands War Sir Max Hastings and Simon Jenkins have written a masterpiece in "Battle for the Falklands". In a single volume, between the two authors they provide a comprehensive look at the diplomatic efforts and an unparalleled record of the events on the ground. Almost 30 ...             Korean War Max Hastings Simon & Schuster, 1988 Story of a Tragedy The Korean War took the world by surprise when, in the morning of June 25 1950, thousands of North Korean troops came crashing across the 38th parallel separating the two Koreas. The ensuing war would come to pit the American -led United Nations against North Korea and ...             Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy Max Hastings Vintage, 2006 More Bite than Sugar To start I should clarify two things, firstly, I like Max Hastings as a writer and historian. I like the way he incorporates the entire spectrum of participants in the story which takes the 'grind' out of reading an historic account. He also doesn't 'romanticise' ...             The Faces of World War II Max Hastings Cassell Illustrated, 2008 Paying tribute to all who fought and died, this chronologically structured collection of photographs covers all the major events of the Second World War—from the blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor. Many of the images capture harrowing combat scenes of conflict, brutality, suffering, and ...             A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944 Willy Peter Reese Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005 This book was not written for entertainment This was a very interesting book that was written by an average soldier that had an above average intellect. This young man would have been "somebody" if he had survived the war. Unfortunately, he did not and these pages show his view of the war in the East. The book ...             Overlord Max Hastings Touchstone, 1985 A superb, unvarnished military history Hastings strips away the mythology of the "triumphant" march across Western Europe from D-Day to the Falaise Gap. We see instead often confused, all too timid generalship, poor training and worse execution that may have lengthened the European war by months. ...             A Portrait of England Think Books, 2006 Save the Earth I bought this thinking it would be incredible pictures and history. There are some incredible pictures, but not of famous things like you'd expect..it's more like random lakes and such. It's written from a "save the earth" perspective with people telling why they ...             Battle of Britain (Wordsworth Military Library) Len Deighton, Max Hastings Wordsworth Military Library, 1999 Easy read This is a great first book on the Battle of Britain. I have enjoyed many Max Hastings and Len Deighton history books because of their ability to make these subjects very readable. The book includes sections on the equipment of both sides of the Battle and keeps the ...             The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes (Oxford Books of Prose) Oxford University Press, USA, 2002 Diverse collection for the historian or average reader Max Hastings has compiled a truly stellar group of personal stories of campaigns dating from the Bible to the Falklands War. Each item is briefly introduced, with any background needed to understand the context of the story as it relates to the battle or campaign. It ...             Bomber Command (Pan Grand Strategy) Max Hastings Pan Books, 1999 Bombing for bombing's sake? First of all, it is easy to see how this work won the 1980 Somerset Maugham Award for Non-Fiction. I was totally riveted throughout. After reading the book in nearly one sitting, I felt exhausted and numb. The book is an indictment against the entire theory of ...          products you might be interested in search for books armageddon, battlefield, falklands, inhumanity, retribution, wordsworth we recommend Armageddon randomly chosen book: Backen für Diabetiker