Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield - Rilegato

Hastings, Max

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ISBN 10: 1400044413 ISBN 13: 9781400044412

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006

Riassunto

Assessing the experiences of thirteen soldiers, airmen, and sailors, a military historian and author of Armageddon sheds new light on what it means to be a warrior during the wars of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, examining their individual triumphs, tragedies, follies, and motivations. 60,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

“Fantastically entertaining. . . . [Hastings] acts as a sort of Plutarch to the modern warrior. His ‘lives’ are splendidly done, full of compelling narrative and telling detail.” —The Wall Street Journal

“Hastings is an expert literary craftsman who makes the most out of stories that, however often repeated, are never less than gripping.... a first-rate piece of entertainment.”—The Washington Post Book World

“Clever, absorbing and vividly written. . . Max Hasting is very good on the matter of courage.”—The New York Review of Books

“Hastings has written a marvelous book. Wry, perceptive and engaging, it lays bare the curious mix of character traits - good and bad - that a successful warrior requires.”—The Sunday Telegraph
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

Max Hastings is the author of the critically acclaimed Armageddon, Bomber Command, Overlord, The Korean War, and 13 other titles. He has served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain’s Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph and has received numerous British Press Awards, including Journalist of the Year in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He lives outside London.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400044413
• ISBN 13: 9781400044412
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 416