¿A gripping new collection from Max Hastings that puts you at the heart of the battle ¿ Compelling¿ Daily Mail¿An unmissable read¿ Sunday TimesSoldiers is a very personal gathering of sparkling, gripping tales by many writers, about men and women who have borne arms, reflecting bestselling historian Max Hastings¿s lifetime of studying war. It rings the changes through the centuries, between the heroic, tragic and comic; the famous and the humble. The nearly 350 stories illustrate vividly what it is like to fight in wars, to live and die as a warrior, from Greek and Roman times through to recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan.Here you will meet Jewish heroes of the Bible, Rome¿s captain of the gate, Queen Boudicca, Joan of Arc, Cromwell, Wellington, Napoleon¿s marshals, Ulysses S. Grant, George S. Patton and the modern SAS. There are tales of great writers who served in uniform including Cobbett and Tolstoy, Edward Gibbon and Siegfried Sassoon, Marcel Proust and Evelyn Waugh, George
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A Times History Book of the Year 2022From the #1 bestselling historian Max Hastings ¿the heart-stopping story of the missile crisis¿ Daily TelegraphThe 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis was the most perilous event in history, when mankind faced a looming nuclear...
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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.In 1914, Europe plunged into the 20th century's...
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A brand new history of the Dambusters raid from best-selling and critically acclaimed military historian, Max Hastings.<br/><br/><br/>Operation Chastise, the destruction of the Mohne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's...
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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...
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