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Country Fair

Макс Хейстингс

Country Fair

A new collection of rural writings celebrating the pleasures of the country life – in particular fishing and shooting – by the eminent military historian and former editor of the Daily Telegraph, Max Hastings.Max Hastings is known as a best-selling author of military histories (The Battle of the Falklands, Bomber Command, Armageddon, etc.) and as a former editor of the Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard, but his first loves are the countryside and its pursuits.Whether walking up grouse in...

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Vietnam

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Vietnam

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Korean War

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Korean War

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Inferno

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Inferno

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Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

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Chastise: The Dambusters Story 1943

A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne 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...

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Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: A...

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Max Hastings Two-Book Collection: All Hell Let Loose and Catastrophe

A two-book collection of Max Hastings’ bestselling works about the 20th century’s most terrible global conflicts.‘Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914’: In this centenary year, Hastings’ thrilling and also deeply moving account seeks to explain both how Europe plunged into what was then called ‘The Great War’, what befell the millions of people of many nations caught up in the first months on the battlefield and as civilian victims.‘All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945’: This is...

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Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from...

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Warriors: Extraordinary Tales from the Battlefield

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...

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Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944...

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Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–45

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...

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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divis...

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Vietnam: An Epic History of a Divisive War 1945-1975

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER‘A masterful performance’ Sunday Times‘Magnificent… One by one, the sacred canons of right and left are obliterated. The war is laid bare, with all its uncomfortable truths exposed’ The Times‘An altogether magnificent historical narrative.’ Tim O’BrienVietnam became the Western world’s most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three...

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All Hell Let Loose: The World at Wa...

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All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945

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...

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The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Gu...

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The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939–1945

‘As gripping as any spy thriller, Hastings’s achievement is especially impressive, for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject’ Sunday Times‘Authoritative, exciting and notably well written’ Daily Telegraph‘A serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history … royally entertaining and readable’ Mail on SundayIn ‘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...

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Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord...

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Finest Years: Churchill as Warlord 1940–45

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 between what Churchill wanted from the British people and their army, and what they were capable of delivering. Himself a hero, he expected others to show themselves heroes also, and was often...

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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 191...

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Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914

A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914.1914: a year of unparalleled change. The year that diplomacy failed, Imperial Europe was thrown into its first modernised warfare and white-gloved soldiers rode in their masses across pastoral landscapes into the blaze of machine–guns. What followed were the costliest days of the entire War. But how had it happened?In Catastrophe: 1914 Max Hastings, best-selling author of the acclaimed All Hell Let Loose, answers at last how...

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Did You Really Shoot the Television...

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Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable

Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even – his father's most exotic 1960 stunt – being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.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 wrote plays and essays, and penned an enchanting...

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Chastise

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Chastise

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Вьетнам. История трагедии. 1945–197...

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Вьетнам. История трагедии. 1945–1975

«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...

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Вторая мировая война. Ад на земле

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Вторая мировая война. Ад на земле

В Европе «Вторая мировая война» британского военного историка Макса Хейстингса – самый известный и авторитетный однотомник об этой войне. В динамичном, захватывающем повествовании Хейстингс виртуозно сочетает масштабность видения с выразительностью деталей. На гигантском полотне отчетливо и ярко различимы подробности сражений и экономики воюющих стран, логистика снабжения армий, политические портреты и зарисовки во французском Генеральном штабе, в Белом доме, в Министерстве по делам колоний или...

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Первая мировая война. Катастрофа 19...

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Первая мировая война. Катастрофа 1914 года

В канун столетия Первой мировой войны 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. 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,...

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Первая мировая война. Катастрофа 19...

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Первая мировая война. Катастрофа 1914 года

Каждая книга крупного историка и писателя сэра Макса Хейстингса становится событием. Автор известен скрупулезным подходом к исследованиям, использованием огромного количества источников и прекрасным стилем. Британец по происхождению, он неизменно неполиткорректен по отношению к глупости своих и чужих военачальников. К ошибкам, просчетам и самодовольству политиков, приводящих человечество к аду на земле, как это было в 1914-м, одном из самых кровавых в мировой истории. В канун столетия Первой...

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Вторая мировая война. Ад на земле

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Вторая мировая война. Ад на земле

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