books by Max Hastings

books by Max Hastings

books:

Max Hastings

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 ...

Retribution: The Battle for Japan, 1944-45

Max Hastings

Knopf, 2008

Best End of the Asian War Book
Retribution is every bit as good as Max Hasting's previous book, Armageddon. Also, a person gets the story that in 1944 the issue of the war against Japan was still somewhat in doubt. Hastings breaks the book down into three main themes. First, there is the two part ...

Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy

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 ...

The 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 ...

Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944-1945

Max Hastings

Vintage, 2005

An objective account of the last year of WWII.
In Armageddon, the author avoids the usual nationalistic hype that underlies accounts of World War II. Russia, the U. S., Britain, and Germany are described with painful objectivity in this history. Though the author is British, Montgomery's desparate attempts to ...

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 ...

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 Korean War

Max Hastings

Simon & Schuster, 1988

Great Overview
A smoothly readable, nicely paced overview of the Korean war. Hastings is one of the best at narrative history.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Oxford Book of Military Anecdotes

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 ...

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 ...

Armageddon

Max Hastings

Pan Books, 2005

The End of Europe's Calvary.
First of all let me state that "Armageddon" is a great history book, very readable, well structured and addressing many different key aspects of the period. Max Hastings is a highly opinionated and to some extent controversial author. Nevertheless he support his ...

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

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 ...