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Автор: Max Hastings
Название: The Korean War
ISBN: 152903793X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781529037937
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A narrative history of the Korean War by bestselling author Sir Max Hastings.

Автор: Hastings, Max
Название: Battle for the falklands
ISBN: 033051363X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330513630
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: The Battle for the Falklands is a vivid chronicle of the political decision-making and military strategy during the Falklands conflict.

Автор: Hastings Max
Название: Secret War
ISBN: 0007503903 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007503902
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: `As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings`s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject` Sunday Times `Authoritative, exciting and notably well written` Daily Telegraph `A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history ... royally entertaining and readable` Mail on Sunday

Автор: Max Hastings
Название: Finest Years: Churchill As Warlord 1940–45
ISBN: 0007263686 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780007263684
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Описание: `I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill`s time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a result` James Holland, Literary Review

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: Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975
ISBN: 0062405675 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780062405678
Издательство: HarperCollins USA
Цена: 16010.00 T
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Описание:

An absorbing and definitive modern history of the Vietnam War from the acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Secret War.

Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu, the 1968 Tet offensive, the air blitz of North Vietnam, and also much less familiar miniatures such as the bloodbath at Daido, where a US Marine battalion was almost wiped out, together with extraordinary recollections of Ho Chi Minh's warriors. Here are the vivid realities of strife amid jungle and paddies that killed two million people.

Many writers treat the war as a US tragedy, yet Hastings sees it as overwhelmingly that of the Vietnamese people, of whom forty died for every American. US blunders and atrocities were matched by those committed by their enemies. While all the world has seen the image of a screaming, naked girl seared by napalm, it forgets countless eviscerations, beheadings, and murders carried out by the communists. The people of both former Vietnams paid a bitter price for the Northerners' victory in privation and oppression. Here is testimony from Vietcong guerrillas, Southern paratroopers, Saigon bargirls, and Hanoi students alongside that of infantrymen from South Dakota, Marines from North Carolina, and Huey pilots from Arkansas.

No past volume has blended a political and military narrative of the entire conflict with heart-stopping personal experiences, in the fashion that Max Hastings' readers know so well. The author suggests that neither side deserved to win this struggle with so many lessons for the twenty-first century about the misuse of military might to confront intractable political and cultural challenges. He marshals testimony from warlords and peasants, statesmen and soldiers, to create an extraordinary record.

Автор: Hastings, Max
Название: Vietnam
ISBN: 0008133018 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780008133016
Издательство: HarperCollins UK
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Цена: 11430.00 T
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Описание: THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER `His masterpiece` Antony Beevor, Spectator `A masterful performance` Sunday Times `By far the best book on the Vietnam War` Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year

Автор: Hastings Max Sir
Название: Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45
ISBN: 0307275361 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780307275363
Издательство: Random House (USA)
Цена: 12260.00 T
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Описание: By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained unclear. The ensuing drama--that ended in Japan's utter devastation--was acted out across the vast theater of Asia in massive clashes between army, air, and naval forces.

In recounting these extraordinary events, Max Hastings draws incisive portraits of MacArthur, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, Stalin, and other key figures of the war in the East. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailors caught in the bloodiest of campaigns.

With its piercing and convincing analysis, Retribution is a brilliant telling of an epic conflict from a master military historian at the height of his powers.

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: Hastings Max
Название: Armageddon
ISBN: 0330490621 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780330490627
Издательство: Pan Macmillan
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Описание: A stunning new book from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians destined to be the Keegan of his generation One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found the strength to halt the Allied advance in its tracks and to prolong the war to 1945. This book is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe.

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..