Sir Max Hastings was a foreign correspondent for many years, reporting from more than 60 countries for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard. He reported conflict in the Middle East, Indochina, Angola, India, Zimbabwe and finally the 1982 Falklands War. He has presented historical documentaries for television, including series on the Korean War and on Churchill and his generals. He is the recipient of numerous British awards for his books and journalism, including Journalist of the Year (1982), and Editor of the Year (1988). He has written 18 books on military history and current events. Some notables are Bomber Command, which earned the Somerset Maugham Prize for nonfiction, The Battle for the Falklands, Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, both of which also received awards. For 16 years, he was successively editor-in-chief of the British Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard, from which he retired in 2002. He has published two memoirs, Going To The Wars (2000) about his experiences as a war correspondent, and Editor (2003) about his time running newspapers. He lives outside London.
“[A] masterly account of the climax of the conflict against Japan.
. . . Hastings is a military historian in the grand tradition.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“Compelling. . . . To the broad sweep of military events Hastings
adds myriad human stories . . . and he does not hesitate to offer
his own keen analysis along the way.” —The Wall Street Journal
“Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an inkling .
. . of what it must have been like to slog one's way up a cliff at
Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo.” —The New York Review of
Books
“A triumph. . . . The key to the book's success lies not in its
accessibility, nor in its vivid portraits of the key figures in the
drama—although it has both—but in something else entirely: the
author's supremely confident ambition.” —The Sunday Times
(London)"Hastings has another winner. . . . This book is first-rate
popular history, stiffened with a strongly stated point of view . .
. A close-up and personal look at war as it affected real people,
and how it felt to them at the time." —Harry Levins, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
"Explosive, argumentative, intensely researched. . . . Demands to
be read. A book of stunning disclosures." —Tom Mackin, Sunday
Star-Ledger
"[A] masterful interpretive narrative. . . . Hastings is both
comprehensive and finely acute." —Booklist
"Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful. Hastings makes
important points about the war in the East that have been all too
rarely heard." —Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph
"Extraordinary . . . Anyone who believes that we're all
living through a uniquely troubled time should read this . . .
book." —Georgie Rose, The Sunday Herald
"This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone
who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one
of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century." —The
Spectator
"Highly readable . . . An admirably balanced re-examination of the
last phases of a conflict that it is not fashionable to remember."
—Dan van der Vat, The Guardian
"Engrossing. . . . Its originality lies in the meticulousness of
the author's research and the amazing witnesses he has found."
—Murray Sayle, The Evening Standard
"Hastings is . . . a master of the sort of detail that illuminates
the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro
between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes
him such a readable historian." —Mail on Sunday
"[A] masterly account of the climax of the conflict against
Japan. . . . Hastings is a military historian in the grand
tradition." -The New York Times Book Review
"Compelling. . . . To the broad sweep of military events Hastings
adds myriad human stories . . . and he does not hesitate to offer
his own keen analysis along the way." -The Wall Street
Journal
"Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an
inkling . . . of what it must have been like to slog one's way up a
cliff at Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo." -The New
York Review of Books
"A triumph. . . . The key to the book's success lies not in its
accessibility, nor in its vivid portraits of the key figures in the
drama-although it has both-but in something else entirely: the
author's supremely confident ambition." -The Sunday Times
(London)"Hastings has another winner. . . . This book is first-rate
popular history, stiffened with a strongly stated point of view . .
. A close-up and personal look at war as it affected real people,
and how it felt to them at the time." -Harry Levins, St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
"Explosive, argumentative, intensely researched. . . . Demands to
be read. A book of stunning disclosures." -Tom Mackin, Sunday
Star-Ledger
"[A] masterful interpretive narrative. . . . Hastings is both
comprehensive and finely acute." -Booklist
"Spectacular . . . Searingly powerful. Hastings makes important
points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely
heard." -Andrew Roberts, The Sunday Telegraph
"Extraordinary . . . Anyone who believes that we're all living
through a uniquely troubled time should read this . . . book."
-Georgie Rose, The Sunday Herald
"This is a book not only for military history buffs but for anyone
who wants to understand what happened in half the world during one
of the bloodiest periods of the blood-soaked 20th century." -The
Spectator
"Highly readable . . . An admirably balanced re-examination of the
last phases of a conflict that it is not fashionable to remember."
-Dan van der Vat, The Guardian
"Engrossing. . . . Its originality lies in the meticulousness of
the author's research and the amazing witnesses he has found."
-Murray Sayle, The Evening Standard
"Hastings is . . . a master of the sort of detail that illuminates
the human cost. It is the way he leaps so adeptly to and fro
between the vast panorama and the tiny snapshot pictures that makes
him such a readable historian." -Mail on Sunday
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