Max Hastings
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
xxxvii, 628 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: from the breakdown of diplomacy to the dramatic battles that occurred before the war bogged down in the trenches. World War I immediately evokes images of the trenches: grinding, halting battles that sacrificed millions of lives for no territory or visible gain. Yet the first months of the war, from the German invasion of Belgium to the Marne to Ypres, were utterly...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxxiii, 857 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"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,...
Author
Publisher
Harper, An Imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxvii, 610 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
An examination of one of the most important yet underexplored aspects of World War II--intelligence--shows how espionage successes and failures by the United States, Britain, Russia, Germany, and Japan influenced the course of the war and its final outcome.
Author
Pub. Date
1987
Physical Desc
391 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. In this extensive history, preeminent military historian Max Hastings takes us back to the bloody, bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than two hundred vets-including the Chinese-Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 555 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Churchill got many little things wrong, but he was right, crucially so, on major points of Allied strategy. When the Americans joined the war, they were hot to invade France. Churchill dissuaded Roosevelt from mounting what, in 1942 or 1943, would have been a suicide mission, and redirected Allied attention to North Africa and Italy. The Mediterranean campaign bore mixed results, but Churchill's instincts were correct. There is a poignant ambiguity...
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
xxv, 615 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates: illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the horrific final year of the Pacific war. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan's defeat was inevitable, but how the victory would be achieved remained to be seen. Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the key figures--MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailors--American, British, Russian, Chinese,...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
xx, 729 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
A monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II, and its deeply personal consequences. Hastings simultaneously traces the major developments and puts them into real human context. He also explores some of the darker and less explored regions of the war's penumbra, including the conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland; and the Bengal famine in 1943 and 1944.
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
xxxv, 364 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the infamous British military operation, the Dambusters raid. This aerial bombing attack, called Operation Chastise, was responsible for the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in northwest Germany by Britain's Royal Air Force 617 Squadron, an epic wartime maneveuver that has become military legend.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zenith Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xiii, 272 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
June 1944, the month of the D-Day landings carried out by Allied forces in Normandy, France. Germany's 2nd SS Panzer Division, one of Adolf Hitler's most elite armor units, had recently been pulled from the Eastern Front and relocated to France in order to regroup, recruit more troops, and restock equipment. With Allied forces suddenly on European ground, the division--Das Reich --was called up to counter the invasion. Its march northward to the shores...
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
26 audio discs (approximately 31 1/2 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
From one of our finest military historians comes a monumental work that shows us at once the truly global reach of World War II and its deeply personal consequences. World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives--an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, single-volume...
Publisher
Pritzker Military Museum & Library
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
x, 253 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Collected here for the first time are key works by this century's leading military historians, all recipients of the Pritzker Military Museum & Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing. The Pritzker Literature Award honors writers whose work adds to the public's understanding of military history and the role played by the military in civil society. In the tradition of historians dating back to ancient times, these authors...