Publisher | Harper Perennial |
ISBN 13 | 9780007219810 |
ISBN 10 | 7219814 |
Book Subtitle | The Battle for Japan, 1944-45 |
Editorial Review | "Hastings is a military historian in the grand tradition . . . He is equally adept at analyzing the broad sweep of strategy and creating thrilling set pieces that put the reader in the cockpit of a fighter plane or the conning tower of a submarine." --Evan Thomas, The New York Times Book Review "Compelling . . . To the broad sweep of military events Mr. Hastings adds myriad human stories . . . and he does not hesitate to offer his own keen analysis along the way." --Peter R. Kann, The Wall Street Journal "The great merit of Max Hastings's many books on war is his skill at bringing the numbers, as it were, down to earth. Through the imaginative power of his writing, we get an inkling . . . of what it must have been like to slog one's way up a cliff at Iwo Jima, or be firebombed in Tokyo." --Ian Buruma, New York Review of Books |
About the Author | Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings, FRSL, FRHistS (/ˈheɪstɪŋz/; born 28 December 1945) 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. |
Language | English |
Format | Paperback |
Author | Max Hastings |
Edition Number | First Edition Thus edition |
Publication Date | 18/01/2012 |
Number of Pages | 704 |
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