Max Hastings

Going to the Wars (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

His memoirs have ... honesty, pace and readability.' Jeremy Paxman

Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30 he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final effort was as a war correspondent during the Falklands War. Going to the Wars is a story of his experiences reporting from these battlefields. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions who found himself recording the acts of heroes.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pan Macmillan
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447219071
• Artikelnr.: 39682266

Autorenporträt

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
i: Permissions Acknowledgements Section
ii: List of Maps and Illustrations Section
iii: Foreward Chapter
1: Tarnished Wings Chapter
2: Street Apprentice Chapter
3: A Taxi to Biafra Chapter
4: Shooting Vietnam Chapter
5: Ticket to Firebase Six Chapter
6: Yom Kippur Chapter
7: Israel's Victory Chapter
8: Bush War Chapter
9: Goodbye to Da Nang Chapter
10: The Fall of Saigon Chapter
11: Savimbi's Angola Chapter
12: Yoni Chapter
13: Voyage to the South Atlantic Chapter
14: On the Shore Chapter
15: Mount Kent Chapter
16: Walking to Stanley Section
iv: Postscript Index
v: Index