Hastings, Max

Reevaluates the Cuban Missile Crisis, one of the most gripping and tense international events in modern history, seeking to explain the attitudes and conduct of the Soviets, Cubans, and Americans, and recreate the heightened fears of countless innocent bystanders whose lives hung in the balance.

"Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle"--OCLC.

"Looks at the secret war on a global basis, bringing together the British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories [and] examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events"--Provided by publisher.

"Looks at the secret war on a global basis, bringing together the British, American, German, Russian and Japanese histories [and] examines the espionage and intelligence machines of all sides in World War II, and the impact of spies, code-breakers and partisan operations on events"--Provided by publisher.

Inferno is a new and essential understanding of one of the greatest and bloodiest events of the twentieth century.

Examines the history of World War Two using detailed stories of every day people including soldiers, sailors, airmen, British housewives and Indian peasants to SS killers and the citizens of Leningrad, Japanese suicide pilots and American carrier crews.

Examines the final year of fighting between Japan and the U.S., China, Great Britain, and Russia during the Second World War, discussing such topics as the Battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the Soviet offensive in Manchuria, the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the mind-set of the Japanese during the war.