Finest Years: Churchill As Warlord 1940–45, Max Hastings

Автор: Max Hastings
Название: Nemesis
ISBN: 0007219814 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007219810
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A companion volume to his bestselling `Armageddon`, Max Hastings` account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.

Автор: Hastings Max
Название: Editor
ISBN: 033049063X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330490634
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Цена: 6150.00 T
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Описание: Max Hastings` illustrious career started in 1985, when he was offered the editorship of "The Daily Telegraph" in a surprise move by its owners. This candid memoir tells the story of what happened to him, and to a great newspaper, over the next decade.

Автор: Hastings Max
Название: Korean War
ISBN: 0330392883 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330392884
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: On 25 June 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest and most devastating conflicts of our battle-scarred century. Drawing on the accounts of those who fought on both sides, this work offers a reassessment of the Korean War, bringing the military and human dimensions of the conflict into focus.

Автор: Hastings, Max
Название: Armageddon
ISBN: 0375714227 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780375714221
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 13490.00 T
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Описание:

This is epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy -to stand with that of the best journalists and writers- (New York Times Book Review).
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hurtgen Forest, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants and interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, and of their human impact on American, British, German, and Russian soldiers and civilians.
Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British? Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the other giants of the struggle.
The crucial final months of the twentieth century's greatest global conflict come alive in this rousing and revelatory chronicle.

Автор: Max Hastings
Название: Finest Years: Churchill As Warlord
ISBN: 0007337744 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007337743
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before.Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering.

Himself a hero, he expected others to show themselves heroes also, and was often disappointed. It is little understood how low his popularity fell in 1942, amid an unbroken succession of battlefield defeats. Some of his closest colleagues joined a clamour for him to abandon his role directing the war machine.

Hastings paints a wonderfully vivid image of the Prime Minister in triumph and tragedy. He describes the 'second Dunkirk' in 1940, when Churchill's impulsiveness threatened to lose Britain almost as many troops in north-west France as had been saved from the beaches; his wooing of the Americans, and struggles with the Russians. British wartime unity was increasingly tarnished by workers' unrest, with many strikes in mines and key industries.By looking at Churchill from the outside in, through the eyes of British soldiers, civilians and newspapers, and also those of Russians and Americans, Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman.

He condemns as folly Churchill's attempt to promote mass uprisings in occupied Europe, and details 'Unthinkable', his amazing 1945 plan for an Allied offensive against the Russians to liberate Poland. Here is an intimate and affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain's saviour, but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led and the performance of its armed forces.

Автор: Max Hastings
Название: All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945
ISBN: 0007450729 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007450725
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the Second World War. A book which shows the impact of war upon hundreds of millions of people around the world- soldiers, sailors and airmen; housewives, farm workers and children..