Inferno audiobook by max hastings, read by ralph cosham. In other books, max hastings has focused on particular parts of world war ii. The world at war, 19391945 by max hastings goodreads. Listen to thousands of best sellers and new releases on your iphone, ipad, or android. I have some other books of max hastings to read but will do them in stages due.
The world at war, 1939 1945 by max hastings knopf we tend to think of this world war as essentially a european and east asian conflict, but hastings is at pains to emphasize. The march of the 2nd panzer division through france, 1944 by max hastings and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. Warriors isbn 9781400044412 pdf epub max hastings ebook. The battle for germany, 19441945 by max hastings and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. The author of this book, max hastings, is a military author and historian. The world at war 19391945 is a 2011 book by historian max hastings, covering the history of world war ii and complementing hastings earlier works overlord, armageddon and nemesis. Its the significance of the individual witness that powers max hastingss new history of the second world war. Max hastings has 74 books on goodreads with 95001 ratings.
In 2012 he received the pritzker military library literature award for lifetime achievement in military writing. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of britains evening standard and daily telegraph. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books have been bestsellers translated around the. Hastings continues a recent substantial body of general audience writing on wwii armageddon. For thirtyfive years, max hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. He has received numerous british press awards, including journalist of the year in 1982 and editor of the year in 1988. To ask other readers questions about inferno, please sign up. Apr 15, 2005 warriors by max hastings 384 pp, harpercollins. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. About max hastings max hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently winstons war.
The obsession with honor would entangle the japanese in ruinous imprudence, the british journalist and author max hastings writes in his estimable new history. Dont for an instant think that an author with such credentials is going to deliver anything but a book. More than two million american veterans of world war ii are still alive, an eighth of those who fought, the last witnesses to what max hastings rightly calls the largest event in human history. Max hastings latest book is certainly a weighty tome, with unusually small print for a modern book, and sets itself the unenviable task of covering the entirety of world war. Inferno the world at war, 19391945 by max hastings book. Nov 01, 2011 max hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently winstons war. All hell let loose was named as one of the telegraphs books of the year. Nov 20, 2011 sir max hastings, author of this latest survey, has already written no fewer than eight books about key campaigns and personalities of the war. He spent his early career as a foreign correspondent for bbc tv and various newspapers, then as. The secret war, by max hastings the new york times.
Browse audiobooks written by max hastings sorted by best. Page 365 charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living god, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy. Sir max hastings, author of this latest survey, has already written no fewer than eight books about key campaigns and personalities of the war. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading inferno. From one of the foremost historians of the period and the acclaimed author of inferno and catastrophe. Hastings unique account eschews the typical military history preoccupation with detailed accounts of generals and their battle plans. Editor an inside story of newspapers by hastings, sir max and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Armageddon by max hastings, first edition abebooks. Inferno the world at war, 19391945 by max hastings. The world at war, 19391945 by max hastings, paperback. Max hastings collection 3 books collection book people. Founded in 1997, has become a leading book price comparison site. Sir max hastings chronicles vietnam with the benefit of vivid personal memories. Booktopia inferno, the world at war, 19391945 by sir max.
Hastings gives us the strategies of the war as a framework, a glue to bring into focus the war at a personal level. But of late the issue of the effectiveness of strategic bombing has become a contested one in britain, and journalist hastings contribution to the debate is a crippling blow to the carefully constructed myth. Retribution, in this equally wellresearched and wellpresented account focusing on the conflicts. Sir max hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every british national newspaper. The secret war spies, cyphers and guerrillas 19391945 by max hastings illustrated. Hastings, the eminent british journalist and historian whose previous books include accounts of the battle of britain, dday, the holocaust and the. In the secret war, max hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and some extraordinary sagas of intelligence and resistance, to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history. This one covers the whole conflict, and does so very convincingly. The world at war, 19391945 reprint by hastings, max isbn. May 15, 2016 the secret war spies, cyphers and guerrillas 19391945 by max hastings illustrated.
Sir max hastings is the author of twentysix books, most about conflict and several made the new york times bestsellers list. Americans love to love harrods and all thing royal. Hastings books books, find the lowest price on new, used books, textbooks. This is a profoundly depressing book but an essential corrective to those who have mined this war for tales of valor and selflessness. Max hastings is the author of more than 20 books, including catastrophe 1914. An average of 27,000 people perished each day between september 1939 and august 1945 as a consequence of the global conflict, observes military historian max hastings in inferno. As well as describing the key battles, the author deals extensively with the human side of the conflict. World war ii involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million livesan average of twentyseven thousand a day.
Fantastic offers on quality books, collections, audio cds and more exclusive to book people. Among the strongest images of world war ii is that of waves of allied bombers striking at the heart of germany, reducing german cities to rubble and destroying the german will to fight. Max hastings chronicles vietnam with the benefit of vivid personal memories. Max hastings has 74 books on goodreads with 95515 ratings. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of. Retribution is a worthy sequel to his previous books on the war in europe including overlord, about the allied invasion of france, and armageddon. Max hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently retribution. In 54 wideranging lists, time surveys the highs and lows, the good and the bad, of the past 12 months. Max hastings is the author of more than twenty books, most recently winstons war.
Inferno by max hastings the top 10 everything of 2011 time. The world at war, 19391945 kindle edition by hastings, max. This is a subject that has preoccupied max hastings since his childhood, and. A magisterial history of the greatest and most terrible event in history, from one of the finest historians of the second world war. Max hastings is the author of more than twenty books. This is a subject that has preoccupied max hastings since his childhood, and in warriors he has a stab at an answer. All hell let loose book by max hastings thriftbooks. Though the second world war has been the subject of immense.
He has received numerous british press awards, including journalist of the year in 1982, and editor of the year in 1988. Inferno the world at war 1939 1945 is the best war history i have read. In the united states, it was published under the title inferno. Now, for the first time, he gives us a magnificent, singlevolume history of the entire war. He is also the author of numerous books, chiefly on defence matters, which have won several. Hastings gives us the strategies of the war as a framework, a glue to bring into focus the war at a. Max hastings has 74 books on goodreads with 95555 ratings. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editorinchief of the london daily telegraph, then editor of the evening standard. Buy max hastings collection 3 books collection by max hastings. Buy a cheap copy of all hell let loose book by max hastings. Max hastings begins his magisterial history of world war ii with the simple declaration, this is a book chiefly about human experience. Though the second world war has been the subject of immense historical research, max hastings here demonstrates how much there is still to know.
1154 1395 1502 657 689 528 704 120 568 1090 946 995 1444 1338 1478 1303 67 92 416 1215 458 335 945 479 188 1056 595 1237 338 493 763 668 490 1312 364 1135 1029 130 843