Warriors: Portraits from the Battlefield - Hardcover

Hastings, Max

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1400044413 ISBN 13: 9781400044412

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

'With this collection, Hastings is back on home territory, where he can bring his unique blend of skills as war reporter, and social as well as military historian to bear ... This is one of the best and most diverting of his shorter pieces.' (Evening Standard)

'All (of the stories) are corking ... opinions are stated firmly and with big bold swings of the pendulum. His virtues are clarity and decisiveness – greatly to be admired when it comes to making clear, for the lay reader, roughly what is going on in the fiendishly complex and bloody engagements he describes.' (The Spectator)

'A wonderfully eclectic selection ... Hastings has written a marvellous 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)

'His brisk prose has the qualities of his warriors: clear, decisive, forceful ... Warriors will enthral everyone.' (The Daily Telegraph)

'Brilliant ... Hastings combines his consummate skill as a writer with passages of descriptive brilliance to provide a book for the ordinary citizen ... He captures the commitment of the fighting servicemen and women ... in language that is powerful yet eminently comprehensible. This is a book to entertain.' (The Sunday Times)

About the Author:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1400044413
• ISBN 13: 9781400044412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 416