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Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY | Reading Level: very good
From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings The 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. One of its most ...Show more
All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-45 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
From one of our finest historians, a magisterial account of the most terrible event in history - World War II. The horror of World War II touched the lives of millions across the globe. Few could find the words to describe it, only that the carnage they experienced resembled 'all hell let loose'. The em ...Show more
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 by Sir Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY
One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them. Somehow the Germans found th ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY
Bomber Command is journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings' compelling account of one of the most controversial struggles of the Second World War. RAF Bomber Command's offensive against the cities of Germany was one of the epic campaigns of the Second World War. More than 56,000 British and C ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
A magisterial chronicle of the calamity that crippled Europe in 1914. In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's first terrible act of self-immolation - what was then called The Great War. On the eve of its centenary, Max Hastings seeks to explain both how the conflict came about and what befell mi ...Show more
Catastrophe - Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good
From the acclaimed military historian, a history of the outbreak of World War I: the dramatic stretch from the breakdown of diplomacy to the battles--the Marne, Ypres, Tannenberg--that marked the frenzied first year before the war bogged down in the trenches. In Catastrophe 1914, Max Hastings gives us a ...Show more
Chastise: The Dambusters 1943 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY
A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron on the night of 16/17 May 1943, was an epic that has passed into Britain' ...Show more
Nemesis - The Battle for Japan1944-1945 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: very good
A companion volume to his bestselling '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 Ko ...Show more
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet that Battled to Malta 1942 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY
An epic, intimate new account of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II, from number one bestselling historian Max Hastings. Operation Pedestal was a crucial relief mission that became an epic, bloody naval battle and a pivotal moment in the Second World War. In 1942, the Luftwaffe had a stra ...Show more
Secret War - Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY | Reading Level: good-very good
'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 ...Show more
Soldiers: Great Stories of War and Peace by HASTINGS MAX
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Category: POLITICS & HISTORY
‘A fascinating collection of military stories … The sort of book that can be picked up at intervals … [but] once tasted, is hard to put down' - Washington Post. From bestselling author Max Hastings, a collection of the most extraordinary stories of war, courage, tragedy, strategy and survival. Soldiers ...Show more
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
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Category: MILITARY
The best narrative history of the Korean conflict' - Guardian 'Excellent, readable history by a master of the genre' - Daily Mail ______________On 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of ...Show more