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In The Secret War, Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and extraordinary sagas of intelligence and Resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history. The book links tales of high courage ashore, at sea and in the air to the work of the brilliant ‘boffins’ battling the enemy’s technology. Here are not only the unheralded codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park, but also their German counterparts who achieved their own triumphs and the fabulous espionage networks created, and so often spurned, by the Soviet Union. With its stories of high policy and human drama, the book has been acclaimed as the best…

El eminente historiador militar sirMax Hastings escoge en este estimulante e inspirador relato las vidas de dieciséis «guerreros» de diferente extracción social y nacionalidad de los últimos tres siglos, de sde las Guerras Napoleónicas a los Altos del Golán, pasando por las guerras mundiales o Vietnam, seleccionados por su coraje o su extraordinaria experiencia bélica. En el curso de cuatro décadas escribiendo sobre la guerra, Max Hastings ha desarrollado una fascinación por las hazañas en los campos de batalla (en tierra, mar o aire) y, por supuesto, por los militares que las protagonizaron. Para ello aborda las biografías de…

В канун столетия Первой мировой войны Макс Хейстингс рассматривает причины катастрофы, называя основными виновницами конфликта Германию и Австро-Венгрию. Перед нами разворачивается величественное батальное полотно на Западном и Восточном фронтах. Мы становимся свидетелями дипломатических переговоров и военных действий, знакомимся с сотнями свидетельств современников — от крупнейших военачальников, писателей и врачей до простых солдат, матросов и "гражданских" жителей. Яркое, динамичное повествование создает ощущение присутствия и причастности и способно захватить не только любителей исторических исследований и военных мемуаров.

A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the M?hne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF’s 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain’s national legend. Max Hastings grew up embracing the story, the classic 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson, the 24-year-old wing-commander who won the VC leading the raid. In the 21st Century, however, Hastings urges that we should review the Dambusters in much more complex shades. The aircrew’s heroism was wholly authentic, as was the brilliance of Barnes Wallis, who invented…

An exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen ‘warriors’ from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.Over the course of forty years of writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea or air) – and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples sixteen people from different nationalities in modern history – including Napoleon’s ‘blessed fool’ Baron Marcellin de Marbot (the model for Conan Doyle’s Brigadier…

C.S. Forester’s 1936 masterpiece follows Lt General Herbert Curzon, who fumbled a fortuitous early step on the path to glory in the Boer War. 1914 finds him an honourable, decent, brave and wholly unimaginative colonel. Survival through the early slaughters in which so many fellow-officers perished then brings him rapid promotion. By 1916, he is a general in command of 100,000 British soldiers, whom he leads through the horrors of the Somme and Passchendaele, a position for which he is entirely unsuited and intellectually unprepared.Wonderfully human with Forester’s droll relish for human folly on full display, this is the story of a man of…

Maps best viewed on a tablet.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.‘Unquestionably the best single-volume history of the war ever written’ SUNDAY TIMES.All Hell Let Loose reflects Max Hastings’s thirty-five years of research on World War II, and describes not just the course of events, but an epic tale of human experience, from campaign to campaign, continent to continent.This magisterial…

A masterly narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War, and companion volume to his bestselling ‘Armageddon’, by the pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings.The battle for Japan that ended many months after the battle for Europe involved enormous naval, military and air operations from the borders of India to the most distant regions of China. There is no finer chronicler of these events than the great military historian Max Hastings, whose gripping account explores not just the global strategic objectives of the USA, Japan and Britain but also the first-hand experiences of the airmen, sailors and soldiers of all…

«Вьетнам» — очередной фундаментальный труд Хейстингса, автора бестселлеров «Первая мировая война» и «Вторая мировая война», поистине масштабное повествование об эпической борьбе. В своей новой книге Хейстингс во всех подробностях описывает войну во Вьетнаме: хронологию боевых столкновений, жизнь простого населения в условиях войны, зверства с той и другой стороны конфликта, закулисные политические игры, личные воспоминания участников. Война во Вьетнаме — один из самых спорных конфликтов в современном западном мире, ставший в 1954 году национальным унижением для Франции, а затем, в 1975 году, — еще большим позором для США. Работая над…

Знаменитый историк Макс Хейстингс рассматривает причины катастрофы, называя основными виновницами конфликта Германию и Австро-Венгрию. Перед нами разворачивается величественное батальное полотно на Западном и Восточном фронтах.