Language | English |
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ISBN-10 | 0007219822 |
ISBN-13 | 9780007219827 |
No of pages | 672 |
Font Size | Medium |
Book Publisher | William Collins |
Published Date | 30 May 2016 |
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. His parents were Macdonald Hastings, a journalist and war correspondent, and Anne Scott-James, sometime editor of Harper's Bazaar.
Hastings was educated at Charterhouse School and University College, Oxford, which he left after a year.After leaving Oxford University, Max Hastings became a foreign correspondent, and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard.
Among his bestselling books Bomber Command won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize.
After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, he became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. He has won many awards for his journalism, including Journalist of The Year and What the Papers Say Reporter of the Year for his work in the South Atlantic in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988.
He stood down as editor of the Evening Standard in 2001 and was knighted in 2002. His monumental work of military history, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945 was published in 2005.
He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
Sir Max Hastings honoured with the $100,000 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing.
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A masterly narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War and companion volume to his bestselling ‘Armageddon’, by the preeminent 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 the countries who participated in the Far East and the war in the Pacific.
The big moments in the story are chosen to reflect a wide variety of human experience: the great naval battle of Leyte Gulf, the under-reported war in China, the re-conquest of Burma by the British Army under General Slim, MacArthur's follies in the Philippines, the Marines on Iwojima and Okinawa, Lemay's fire-raising Super-fortress assaults on Japan, the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, the kamikaze pilots of Japan, the almost unknown Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria in the last days of the war, as Stalin hastened to gather the spoils and the terrible final acts across Japanese-occupied Asia. This is classic, epic history - both in the content and the manner of telling.