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Resultaten voor 'max hastings'
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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
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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
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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.
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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 -
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 -
Abisso. Cuba 1962. Il mondo a un passo dal conflitto nucleare
Furono i tredici giorni più famosi della Storia, tra il 16 e il 28 ottobre 1962, quelli in cui Stati Uniti e Unione Sovietica rischiarono di far esplodere la Guerra fredda in guerra atomica. Nei tre mesi precedenti, Nikita Chruscev aveva schierato segretamente missili balistici nucleari sulla costa nord di Cuba. L'America, dal canto suo, aveva installato i suoi Jupiter in Italia e in Turchia e tentato, senza riuscirci, l'invasione dell'isola per rovesciare Fidel Castro. In quei giorni l'umanità si sporse sull'abisso della totale autodistruzione, e per un soffio non vi cadde dentro. Proprio in quel 1962, infatti, John F. Kennedy, uno dei tre attori in scena insieme al leader sovietico e a quello cubano, si ritrovò spesso a citare il bestseller di Barbara Tuchman I cannoni d'agosto, a proposito della Grande Guerra: nessuna delle potenze belligeranti intendeva scatenare il gigantesco conflitto che sarebbe seguito. Eppure. Con quello che si potrebbe ormai definire "il metodo Hastings" - ossia il modo in cui il giornalista, storico, polemologo da oltre mezzo secolo rende godibile a tutti la grande Storia -, "Abisso" ci fa rivivere in presa diretta i giorni cruciali in cui si discusse se attaccare Cuba, guardare i sovietici marciare dentro Berlino Ovest e poi entrare in una guerra globale. Attraverso lo sguardo di capi di Stato, ufficiali sovietici, contadini cubani, piloti americani, fautori del disarmo britannici, avremo accesso a interviste, documenti d'archivio, registrazioni, diari, testimonianze dirette. Su quell'apocalisse sfiorata ed evitata grazie, in fin dei conti, a singoli uomini che hanno saputo fermarsi. E mai quella storia lontana sessant'anni sembrerà tanto vicina. Pensando alla crisi dei missili, dobbiamo ovviamente sentirci grati per essere ancora qui, oggi, a leggere e a scrivere su di essa. Non possiamo essere certi del fatto che ci andrà sempre così bene, e che i grandi leader sapranno sempre far mostra di altrettanta saggezza. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
€ 48,50 -
Armageddon. La battaglia per la Germania (1944-1945)
'La battaglia per la Germania, cominciata come il più imponente fatto d'armi del XX secolo, si concluse nella più grande tragedia umana del Novecento'. Come gli studiosi di storia militare sanno, nei mesi che vanno dal 6 giugno 1944 - la data dello sbarco in Normandia - ai primi giorni del maggio 1945 si racchiude la più grande catastrofe della guerra moderna. La lunga marcia dell'esercito alleato per la conquista di Berlino, viziata da gravi incomprensioni ed errori tattici, si scontra, infatti, con un nemico tedesco ancora pienamente in forze e intenzionato a dare battaglia fino al sacrificio dell'ultimo uomo. Un apocalittico scontro finale che, dopo aver esaminato gli archivi di quattro paesi e intervistato centinaia di testimoni diretti degli avvenimenti, Max Hastings ha il merito di ricostruire con un coinvolgente e originale taglio narrativo. A partire dalle battaglie più note, come l'offensiva delle Ardenne o i combattimenti nella foresta di Hürtgen, fino al dettaglio degli episodi meno conosciuti - uno su tutti, la devastante invasione dell'Armata Rossa in Prussia orientale, nella quale morirono oltre un milione di persone -, Hastings segue le manovre di avvicinamento degli eserciti sui due fronti, restituendo abilmente le dinamiche tra soldati, ufficiali e capi insieme con le storie dei singoli. Quanto influì la rivalità tra Montgomery e Patton nella disastrosa Operazione Market Garden ad Arnhem o quella tra Žukov e Konev nell'assedio di Berlino? Quanto la sfiducia, le invidie e gli interessi politici contrastanti tra gli stati alleati allontanarono la fine delle ostilità, moltiplicando il numero dei caduti? Grande racconto storico, che riesce a tenere insieme le dinamiche militari e i drammi della popolazione civile, come per esempio l'Hongerwinter, l'inverno di fame nell'Olanda occupata dai tedeschi, Armageddon è un'opera monumentale, indispensabile per comprendere l'evento in assoluto più importante e cruento del Novecento. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.
€ 30,50