Finest Years by Max Hastings
'I would choose this account over and above the rest. It is a fabulous book: full of perceptive insight that conveys all the tragedy, triumph, humour and intense drama of Churchill's time as wartime leader; and it is incredibly moving as a result' James Holland, Literary ReviewPraise for 'Nemesis'
'Nemesis is a triumph..provocative, insightful ....impressive......Put all these elements together - the ambition, insight, sureness of touch - and you have a book of real quality.' Sunday Times
'Spectacular...Hastings makes important points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely heard...excellent...compelling...searingly powerful.' Sunday Telegraph
'As Hastings brilliantly describes, conditions for fighting men on both sides were appalling...the fire-bombing of Tokyo and the decision to drop the atomic bombs were influenced by the urge to get this business over with, but the argument, as Hastings explains so well with his usual exemplary judgement, is far more complex.' Financial Times
'He writes with colour and decisiveness...His depiction of Japanese intransigence, brutality and self-delusion and the cultural chasms between East and West are particularly vivid' Sunday Telegraph
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 | 9780007337743 |
| ISBN 10 | 0007337744 |
| Title | Finest Years |
| Author | Max Hastings |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 2009-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 664 |
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