Max Hastings Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Operation Biting was one of the most thrilling British commando raids of World War II, and probably the most successful.

From the #1 bestselling historian Max HastingsThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear collision between the United States and Soviet Union. During those weeks, the world gazed into the abyss of potential annihilation.

The Sunday Times bestseller 'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL

‘A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle … Compelling’ Daily Mail ‘An unmissable read’ Sunday Times

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings.

THE 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

As gripping as any spy thriller, Max Hastings's account of the critical role of intelligence in the Second World War is the best yet.' Sunday Times Packed with insight and terrific spy stories, this masterly book looks at the secret war on a global basis, bringing together the British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories. 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 history of the secret war ever written.

Examining the espionage and intelligence stories of World War II, on a global basis, bringing together the British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories. In "The Secret War", Max Hastings examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events. Written on a global scale, the book brings together accounts from British, American, German, Russian and Japanese sources to tell the story of a secret war waged unceasingly by men and women often far from the battlefields but whose actions profoundly influenced the outcome

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.

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..

Max Hasting's account of his family's tumultuous twentieth-century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newpapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even-his father's most exotic stunt- being cast away on a desert island in the Indian ocean.

"By looking at Churchill from the outside in, through the eyes of British soldiers, civilians and newspapers, and also those of Russians and Americans, Hastings provides new perspectives on the greatest Englishman and the precarious Grand Alliance. He condemns as folly Churchill's attempt to promote mass uprisings in occupied Europe through SOE, and describes the prime minister's disastrous but little-known Dodecanese campaign of 1943. He details Unthinkable, his amazing 1945 plan for an Allied offensive against the Russians to liberate Poland. Here is an intimate and affectionate portrait of Churchill as Britain's saviour, but also an unsparing examination of the wartime nation which he led and the performance of its armed forces."--Jacket.

This volume looks at how within days of the D-day landings, Das Reich 2nd SS Panzer Division marched through France to reinforce the front-line defenders of Hitler's Fortress Europe.

Britský autor řady životopisných, historických i reportážních knih, se ve své nejnovější knize z roku 2004 zabývá závěrečným obdobím druhé světové války - řečeno slovy podtitulu "bitvou o Německo 1944-1945". Sleduje postupné osvobozování zemí násilně začleněných do nacistické říše a dobývání Německa až do závěrečné kapitulace.

Napínavé příběhy válečníků, které sepsal válečný korespondent londýnských Timesů, popisují dramatické osudy konkrétních hrdinů velkých válečných střetů 19. a 20. stol. Celkem čtrnáct příběhů výjimečných bojovníků od dob napoleonských válek, přes dvě světové války až po tankovou bitvu na Golanských výšinách a válku ve Vietnamu. Odrážejí rozmanitost projevů lidské statečnosti, vlastenectví, morálky atd. Některé příběhy jsou romantické, jiné melancholické. Někteří hrdinové těchto příběhů jsou úspěšní, jiní méně. Doplněno dokumentárními fotografiemi a mapkami.

Paying tribute to all who fought and died, this chronologically structured collection of photographs covers all the major events of the Second World War-from the blitzkrieg to the Battle of Britain, from the invasion of Poland to Pearl Harbor. Many of the images capture harrowing combat scenes of conflict, brutality, suffering, and slaughter, but these pictures also include poignant and uplifting scenes of civilians, nurses, and doctors fighting their own battles. Whether for those old enough to remember the events themselves, or those fortunate enough not to, this is a lasting and important document that depicts every aspect of this very modern war in images that will inform, shock, move, and engage.

Published in association with the Campaign to Protect Rural England (CPRE) and introduced by its president, Sir Max Hastings, this beautifully designed coffee-table tome is a must for anyone who cherishes the British countryside. It offers a combination of stunning landscape photography and quintessentially English quotes, poetry, reminiscences, and anecdotes. With a chapter for each of England’s counties, it captures the superb peaks and tumbling waterfalls in the Lake District, the windswept moorland of the Yorkshire Dales, the dramatic cliffs at Land’s End, sunrise on the Norfolk Broads, the historic houses of Chatsworth and Burghley in the East Midlands, and many more locales.

With an introduction read by Max Hastings. A companion volume to his best-selling Armageddon, Max Hastings' account of the battle for Japan is a masterful military history. Featuring the most remarkable cast of commanders the world has ever seen, the dramatic battle for Japan of 1944-45 was acted out across the vast stage of Asia: Imphal and Kohima, Leyte Gulf and Iwo Jima, Okinawa, and the Soviet assault on Manchuria. In this gripping narrative, Max Hastings weaves together the complex strands of an epic war, exploring the military tactics behind some of the most triumphant and most horrific scenes of the 20th century. The result is a masterpiece that balances the story of command decisions, rivalries, and follies with the experiences of soldiers, sailors, and airmen of all sides as only Max Hastings can.

The author has scoured the archives of the major combatants and interviewed many survivors to create an unprecedented understanding of the events and their impact for this rousing and revealing chronicle of the crucial final 18 months of the 20th-century's greatest global conflict, World War II.

This is the first and only all-color portrayal of the momentous events that occurred in Europe between D-Day in 1944 and V-E Day in 1945.

Ofenzíva Bomber Command (velitelství bombardovacího letectva RAF) proti Německu za druhé světové války byla jednou z nejvýznamnějších ukázek ozbrojeného boje. Vše začalo tím, že Winston Churchill neviděl jinou cestu k vítězství. Anglie tehdy v roce 1940 stála proti Německu osamocena. Ofenzíva byla podniknuta s téměř mesiášským úsilím celé jedné generace starších letců, kteří byli odhodláni dokázat, že strategické letecké bombardování může samo o sobě být rozhodujícím pro dosažení vítězství. Výsledek byl rozporuplný. Stála proti sobě morální a strategická hlediska, a výsledek dodnes nebyl dostatečně zhodnocen. Autor pracoval s nepublikovanou korespondencí, deníky a rukopisy, rozmlouval s téměř stovkou přeživších členů letových osádek i mnoha bývalými vyššími důstojníky a civilními pracovníky. Z těchto příběhů je možné vyčíst, jaké to bylo létat v noci nad Německo i co se dělo ve vládních místnostech Whitehallu, Washingtonu či na velitelství v High Wycombe...

The Battle for the Falklands is a vivid chronicle of the political decision- making and military strategy during the Falklands conflict.

It was the first war we could not win. At no other time since World War II have two superpowers met in battle. Now Max Hastings, preeminent military historian takes us back to the bloody bitter struggle to restore South Korean independence after the Communist invasion of June 1950. Using personal accounts from interviews with more than 200 vets —including the Chinese —Hastings follows real officers and soldiers through the battles. He brilliantly captures the Cold War crisis at home—the strategies and politics of Truman, Acheson, Marshall, MacArthur, Ridgway, and Bradley—and shows what we should have learned in the war that was the prelude to Vietnam.

Drawing together eyewitness accounts of survivors from the Axis and Allied powers, plus previously uptapped sources and documents, this book looks at the battle for Normandy. The D-Day landings of 8 June 1944 marked the beginning of Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe.

An account which traces the development of area bombing, using documents, letters, diaries and interviews with key surviving witnesses. Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of World War II.

A myth-busting, page-turning history of the Battle of Britain History is swamped by patriotic myths about the aerial combat fought between the RAF and the Luftwaffe over the summer of 1940. In his gripping history of the Battle of Britain, Len Deighton drew on a decade of research and his own wartime experiences to puncture these myths and point towards a more objective, and even more inspiring, truth.