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Sword
D-Day – Trial by BattleTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
€ 14,95 -
Nemesis
The Battle for Japan, 1944–45A companion volume to his bestselling ‘Armageddon’, Max Hastings’ account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history.
€ 20,95 -
Operation Biting
The 1942 Parachute Assault to Capture Hitler’s RadarEARLY PRAISE FOR OPERATION BITING: 'There are few things in life more dependable than a war story told by Hastings… He’s a master of drama, a writer intimately familiar with the mind of the soldier… The Bruneval operation fell into the lap of Lord Louis Mountbatten, the newly appointed commodore of Combined Operations. Hastings, never one to suffer fools, is wonderfully acerbic, calling Mountbatten an “extreme narcissist” who was attracted to the glory that a successful raid might bring. Hastings is a superb military historian with a delightful talent for gossip… Operation Biting is not a typical war story. War histories are usually studies in failure. So many catastrophic mistakes. So many needless deaths. What a relief then, joy even, to be able to read about a battle with a happy ending and genuine heroes — a day that went well' The Times ‘An important book, and proof that the detailed telling of a small piece of history can illuminate our understanding of a much greater whole. It’s one in a long line of Second World War books written by Hastings in an engaging and entertaining way. Now that almost all the veterans of the conflict are no longer with us, his work is especially valuable: all that remains is the history, and the historians who tell it' Daily Telegraph ''Reads like a thriller’ is often said about good non-fiction accounts of war adventures – but in this case, it’s true. I couldn’t put Max Hastings’s new book down, and I couldn’t even bear to look at the mid-book photographs till I’d finished, in case they gave the story away. Hastings is a top-notch writer, who relishes the eccentric brilliance of British wartime boffins, and who knows exactly when to swoop down from the big story and focus briefly on unforgettable human detail' Daily Mail
€ 14,95 -
Operatie Biting
Operatie Biting was een van de meest spectaculaire Britse commandoaanvallen tijdens de Tweede Wereldoorlog, en waarschijnlijk ook de meest succesvolle.In februari 1942 was de inlichtingendienst van de RAF bezorgd over een onlangs geïdentificeerd radarnetwerk met de codenaam Würzburg. De briljante wetenschapper Dr. R.V. Jones stelde een raid voor om de belangrijkste onderdelen te veroveren. De dichtstbijzijnde radarinstallatie stond echter op een steile klif bij Bruneval in Normandië.Een compagnie van de nieuw gevormde Airborne Forces werd ingezet voor de operatie, die plaatsvond in de nacht van 27 op 28 februari. In een hevige sneeuwstorm landden 120 para's, sommigen vanwege het weer op bijna twee mijl van hun doel. Toch zetten ze de aanval in, ontmantelden de Duitse radar en ontsnapten ze, na een hevig gevecht met soldaten van de Wehrmacht, op het nippertje met landingsvaartuigen over de stormachtige zee naar Portsmouth.Max Hastings vertelt dit verhaal met een schat aan nooit eerder vertelde details. Hij portretteert de opmerkelijke persoonlijkheden. Zelden zijn zoveel fascinerende persoonlijkheden samengebracht om een missie te volbrengen die een voorpaginatriomf werd in een tijdperk van Britse nederlagen.
€ 35,00 -
Soldiers
Great Stories of War and Peace‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times
€ 17,95 -
Vietnam
An Epic History of a Tragic WarTHE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ‘His masterpiece’ Antony Beevor, Spectator ‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times ‘By far the best book on the Vietnam War’ Gerald Degroot, The Times, Book of the Year
€ 17,95 -
Plunder
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos. In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people British, American and German, in a series of great events in which some distinguished themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes. The book takes its title from Montgomery's 'Operation Plunder', the 23 March 1945 crossing of the Rhine, witnessed by Winston Churchill and embracing huge amphibious and airborne landings. The author describes the American coup in capturing Remagen bridge and the 'battles of the breakout' which followed. Thereafter he recounts stories of Nazi Werewolves; of US General George Patton's reckless and doomed dispatch of an armoured column fifty miles behind German lines to liberate his son-in-law from a prison camp; the heartbreaking liberation of Belsen concentration camp; the wonderful achievement of Ian Liddell of the Coldstream Guards, among the last VC winners of the war and surely one of the most deserving; the last big SAS operation of the war. Finally come accounts of the tortuous succession of German surrenders, and the weeks of Admiral Karl Donitz's posturing as the Third Reich's last Fuhrer. Plunder is the latest history from Max Hastings, and offers his signature narrative of conflict, blending personal experiences into the 'big picture', highlighting deeds and personalities that will be unfamiliar to many readers. He mingles accounts of the battles with stories of people - warlords, soldiers, slave labourers, prisoners, fugitives, victims - who played many and various roles in the last European act of history's most terrible war.
€ 31,50 -
Sword Beach
Between 1941 and 1944, the British army contributed relatively little to World War II. On the unremittingly bloody Eastern Front, no Russian or German soldier had experienced the luxury of having four years to prepare and train for a resumption of the European continental campaign. But on D-Day--June 6, 1944--the lives of British soldiers changed. Thiry-five thousand infantrymen, airmen, and special service operatives were sent headfirst into the whitest heat of war, almost overnight. Max Hastings's Sword Beach tells the story of a handful of British soldiers and their critical role in D-Day's parachute and seaborne offensive. On Sword, the codename of one of the two beaches assaulted by the British, scores of soldiers were killed by the first shots that they ever heard fired in anger. One British corporal insisted on apologizing to his enemy prisoners, and the Free French troops, 120-men strong, suffered 60 percent losses in the first days of fighting. With his signature blend of drama and detail, Hastings shows how the men who landed on Sword played a critical role in Britain's preeminent landmark victory and the most spectacular battlefield event of World War II in the West. Sword Beach fills in many of the missing pieces and human stories that have long been left out of the sweeping macro-stories of the Normandy invasion. Based on published memoirs, interviews with D-Day veterans, and rigorous research, Hastings lends color and shade to the climactic action of the Western Front's most famous battle. Sword Beach describes the lives of a small number of men, on a single day, who faced the immediate transition from make-believe battle to the war's most violent circumstances.
€ 24,00 -
PLUNDER HB
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos. In Plunder, Max Hastings presents a cast of fascinating people British, American and German, in a series of great events in which some distinguished themselves through wonderful deeds, others through the basest crimes. The book takes its title from Montgomery's 'Operation Plunder', the 23 March 1945 crossing of the Rhine, witnessed by Winston Churchill and embracing huge amphibious and airborne landings. The author describes the American coup in capturing Remagen bridge and the 'battles of the breakout' which followed. Thereafter he recounts stories of Nazi Werewolves; of US General George Patton's reckless and doomed dispatch of an armoured column fifty miles behind German lines to liberate his son-in-law from a prison camp; the heartbreaking liberation of Belsen concentration camp; the wonderful achievement of Ian Liddell of the Coldstream Guards, among the last VC winners of the war and surely one of the most deserving; the last big SAS operation of the war. Finally come accounts of the tortuous succession of German surrenders, and the weeks of Admiral Karl Donitz's posturing as the Third Reich's last Fuhrer. Plunder is the latest history from Max Hastings, and offers his signature narrative of conflict, blending personal experiences into the 'big picture', highlighting deeds and personalities that will be unfamiliar to many readers. He mingles accounts of the battles with stories of people - warlords, soldiers, slave labourers, prisoners, fugitives, victims - who played many and various roles in the last European act of history's most terrible war.
€ 30,96 -
Erroll
The Extraordinary Life of Erroll Prior-PalmerErroll Prior-Palmer was one of the few men to reach the highest levels of both the British Army and British industry. A brilliant but unconventional leader, he combined battlefield command with a restless appetite for innovation that would later reshape global trade.
€ 34,50 -
Plunder
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
€ 26,50 -
Plunder
The last weeks of World War II on the Western Front in Europe witnessed extraordinary scenes of heroism, horror, melodrama and pathos.
€ 34,50