Did You Really Shoot the Television? by Max Hastings

Did You Really Shoot the Television? by Max Hastings

The extraordinary story of the eccentric family of Britain's most outstanding military historian, Max Hastings.

‘Richly rewarding…A minor masterpieceHis portrait of his absurd and loveable father is extraordinarily touching; that of the failure of his relationship with his mother scarcely less so. The book is extremely funny in places, extremely poignant in others and extremely well-written throughout – in fact, I haven’t enjoyed anything so much in ages.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘Elegiac, reflective and very funny.’ TLS

‘Highly engaging’ Independent

‘Funny and moving…Few [memoirs] are written with as much skill and sensitivity as this one. Moving without being mawkish, Hastings’s book is a trove of marvellous stories’ Sunday Times

‘This brave and poignant book is the self-portrait of an extremely talented outsider who has spent his life trying to live up to his father’s achievements. It is also the emotional journey of a son’s heart-rending non-relationship with his mother.’ Daily Telegraph

‘In this slim, delightful book [Hastings] reveals himself as never before.’ Andrew Marr, FT

‘A brilliantly entertaining book, full of funny, well-told stories.’ Scotsman

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-six books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. 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.

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ISBN 13	9780007271726
ISBN 10	0007271727
Title	Did You Really Shoot the Television?
Author	Max Hastings
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers
Year published	2011-04-28
Number of pages	288
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