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Abyss - The Cuban Missile Crisis 1962 by Max Hastings
$37.99 NZD
Category: World 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
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History
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
Armageddon : The battle for Germany 1944-1945 by Max Hastings
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
A stunning new book from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians - destined to be the Keegan of his generation.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 Ge ...Show more
Bomber Command by Sir Max Hastings
$30.00 NZD
Category: No Category
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 Commonwealth aircrew and 600,000 Germans died in the course of the RAF's attempt to win the war by bombing. The struggle began in 1939 with a few score primitive W ...Show more
Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914 by Max Hastings
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History | 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: World History
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
Chastise (The Dambusters Story 1943) by Max Hastings
$27.99 NZD
Category: History
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER A masterly history of the Dambusters raid from bestselling and critically acclaimed Max Hastings. Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Möhne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national le ...Show more
Did You Really Shoot the Television? A Family Fable by Sir Max Hastings
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings. The author is the son of broadcaster and adventurer Macdonald Hastings and journalist and gardening writer Anne Scott-James. One of his grandfathers was a literary editor while the other wrot ...Show more
Did You Really Shoot the Television? A family fable by Max Hastings
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Max Hastings's account of his family's tumultuous 20th century experiences embraces the worlds of fashion and newspapers, theatre and TV, pioneering in Africa and even his father's most exotic 1960 stunt - being cast away on a desert island in the Indian Ocean.
Finest Years - Churchill as Warlord 1940-45 by Max Hastings
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: very good
Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before. Winston Churchill was the greatest war leader Britain ever had. In 1940, the nation rallied behind him in an extraordinary fashion. But thereafter, argues Max Hastings, there was a deep divide betwee ...Show more