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All Hell Let Loose : The World at War 1939-1945 by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Military
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. Reflecting ...Show more
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Military
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 th ...Show more
Bomber Command by Sir Max Hastings
Category: History
Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 with a few score primitive W ...Show more
Bomber Command by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Audio Books
In Bomber Command, famed British military historian Sir Max Hastings offers a captivating analysis of the strategy and decision-making behind one of World War II's most violent episodes. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More ...Show more
Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War by Sir Max Hastings
Category: WWI & WWII
From the acclaimed military historian, a new history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In "Catastrophe 1914, " Max Hastings gi ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Military
The Amazon History Book of the Year 2013 is a magisterial chronicle of the calamity that befell Europe in 1914 as the continent shifted from the glamour of the Edwardian era to the tragedy of total war. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation- what was then ...Show more
Das Reich: The March of the 2nd SS Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Military | Series: Pan Military Classics Series
Within days of the D-Day lanings, the 'Das Reich' 2nd SS Panzer Division marched north through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe. Veterans of the bloodiest fighting of the Russion Front, 15,000 men with their tanks and artillery, they were hounded for every mile of ...Show more
Did You Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Biography
The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings. The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrot ...Show more
Faces of World War 2 by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Military
"Faces of World War II" pays tribute to all who fought and died, and won and lost for greater human rights and freedom. Structured by year, the book includes images of the major events from Blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbour. With over 17 million people per ...Show more
Faces of World War II by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Herron Books
Faces of World War II pays tribute to all who fought and died, and won and lost for greater human rights and freedom. Structured by year, the book includes images of the major events from Blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor. With over 17 million people perish ...Show more
Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 betwe ...Show more
The Korean War by Sir Max Hastings
Category: Military
On 25 June 1950, the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelud ...Show more