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Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | 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 1939-1945 by Max Hastings
$39.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
[This is Part 2 of a 2-part audiobook Cassette Library Edition.] World War II involved tens of millions of soldiers and cost sixty million lives--an average of twenty-seven thousand a day. For thirty-five years, Max Hastings has researched and written about different aspects of the war. Now, for the fir ...Show more
Bomber Command by Max Hastings
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
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
$39.99 NZD
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
$39.99 NZD
Category: Overseas 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
$26.99 NZD
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
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
The Sunday Times bestseller ‘One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings’ DAILY MAIL In August 1942, beleaguered Malta was within weeks of surrender to the Axis, because its 300,000 people could no longer be fed. Churchill made a persona ...Show more
The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins
$24.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military
<b><i>The Battle for the Falklands </i>is a thoughtful and informed analysis of an astonishing chapter in modern British history from journalist and military historian Sir Max Hastings and political editor Simon Jenkins.</b> Ten weeks. 28,000 soldiers. 8,000 miles from home. The ...Show more
The Korean War: An Epic Conflict 1950-1953 by Max Hastings
$29.99 NZD
Category: Overseas 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
Vietnam: an Epic Tragedy: 1945-1975 by Max Hastings
$39.99 NZD
Category: Overseas Military | Reading Level: very good
From the best-selling author of All Hell Let Loose comes a masterly chronicle of one of the most devastating international conflicts of the 20th century and how its people were affected. 'This is a comprehensive, spellbinding, surprisingly intimate, and altogether magnificent historical narrative.' Tim ...Show more
Winston's War: Churchill, 1940-1945 by Sir Max Hastings, Sir
$69.99 NZD
Category: History
A vivid and incisive portrait of Winston Churchill during wartime from acclaimed historian Max Hastings, "Winston's War" captures the full range of Churchill's endlessly fascinating character. At once brilliant and infuriating, self-important and courageous, Hastings's Churchill comes brashly to life as ...Show more
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