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25 reviews
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 years later, what lessons does the Battle for the Falklands have for the world? The lessons from "Aftermath" contain lessons ...

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45

48 reviews
Max Hastings

Knopf, 2008

Fascinating - superlative effort
This is my first Pacific Theatre (in keeping with the author's heritage) non-fiction book and I was totally taken in by Max Hastings' effort. Realizing that this is just a single year of history, the breath covered was remarkable. It was fascinating reading with very little wasted on superfluous wording. Hastings knows the material and was meticulous in his delivery; mixing history and ...

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 war to life through a wealth of contemporary documentation, private writings and historical ...

Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield

15 reviews
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 book are the personalities from which Hollywood has drawn hundreds of leading characters over the last seventy years. One man, ...

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

13 reviews
Max Hastings

Vintage, 2006

Newer Spin on a Well-Travelled Topic.
Succinctly: This is a well written account of the events which took place upon and immediately after the invasion of Normandy. Like many accounts, it relies upon the anecdotes of the soldiers and commanders involved. Instead of the Olympian rhetoric usually found in a Stephen Ambrose book, this book is often quite critical of the individual qualities of Allied soldiers and commanders-with ...

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

84 reviews
Max Hastings

Vintage, 2005

Very Enlightening...Abu Ghraib was nothing folks
Wow... I guess, I had heard some of this info in countless documentaries, but with all of the press about the west, I didn't realize how much carnage and turmoil was going on in the Eastern front. For instance that more Russians died conquering East Prussia than the total amount of Americans lost in all of the European theater (France, etc). Also, I suppose its beneficial that we as a people have ...

A Stranger to Myself: The Inhumanity of War: Russia, 1941-1944

27 reviews
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 itself does jump around, but this can be understood since it is written by a 20 year old that is trying to understand something ...

Korean War

28 reviews
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 communist China . In this well researched work, Max Hastings looks not only at the conflict itself but also its origins and its ...

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 slaughter, but these pictures also include poignant and uplifting scenes of civilians, nurses, and doctors ...

Bomber Command (Pan Grand Strategy)

9 reviews
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 strategic bombing in WWII and the wholesale slaughter of civilians specifically. While Max Hastings devotes much time to "Bomber" Harris ...

Battle of Britain (Wordsworth Military Library)

2 reviews
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 book personal and interesting. The die hard history buffs will probably not care for this book as much as some because it lacks ...

Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day

1 review
Max Hastings

Little Brown & Co (T), 1985

George Stevens' Color Photography
During World War II, George Stevens, the famed film editor who is known for such films as "Giant" and "The Greatest Story Ever Told," and many, many, others, was a Lieutenant Colonel in charge of film coverage of American troops in battle. Because the Technicolor Process was too complicated and the cameras too cumbersome at that time, all news films of the war were in black and white. Kodak, ...

The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes

1 review

Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

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 being the "Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes" the emphasis is on British history, but there's also a fair number of French, and ...

Das Reich: March of the Second Ss Panzer Division Through France

4 reviews
Max Hastings

Henry Holt & Co, 1982

Finest Hour for La Resistance
When the crack SS division "Das Reich" was called upon to march from southern France to Normandy in summer 1944, it was asked to hose down resistance on its way. It was traveling through the forests of the Dorgogne area, where the maquis were strongest. Thanks to the bravery of the various resistance units - not to mention the stoicism of the French peasantry - the Germans arrived in Normandy ...

British Army: The Definitive History of the Twentieth Century
Imperial War Museum, Max Hastings

Cassell, 2008

Created in close cooperation with the Imperial War Museum, this volume commemorates a century of British military service. The tour of duty begins with the Boer War and continues through today’s conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq. Riveting firsthand accounts and hundreds of rare photographs and illustrations bring the combat experiences of everyday British soldiers alive. One hundred years of weapons, armor, and tactics are explored, along ...

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