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Memoirs from one of the greatest war reporters of our time. Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors. But after his failure as a parachute soldier in Cyprus in 1963, he became a journalist instead. Before he was 30 he had reported conflicts in Northern Ireland. Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Cyprus, Rhodesia, India and a string of other trouble spots. His final effort was as a war correspondent during the Falkalands War. Going to the Wars is a story of his experiences reporting from these battlefields. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward: a writer with heroic ambitions who found himself recording the acts of heroes.

Table of Contents:
Acknowledgements - i: Permissions Acknowledgements Section - ii: List of Maps and Illustrations Section - iii: Foreward Chapter - 1: Tarnished Wings Chapter - 2: Street Apprentice Chapter - 3: A Taxi to Biafra Chapter - 4: Shooting Vietnam Chapter - 5: Ticket to Firebase Six Chapter - 6: Yom Kippur Chapter - 7: Israel's Victory Chapter - 8: Bush War Chapter - 9: Goodbye to Da Nang Chapter - 10: The Fall of Saigon Chapter - 11: Savimbi's Angola Chapter - 12: Yoni Chapter - 13: Voyage to the South Atlantic Chapter - 14: On the Shore Chapter - 15: Mount Kent Chapter - 16: Walking to Stanley Section - iv: Postscript Index - v: Index

About the Author :
Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command, Armageddon, Das Reich, The Korean War, The Battle for the Falklands, Vietnam, Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his books. 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.

Review :
"Max Hastings is one of the greatest living war correspondents." John Keegan "A wonderful account of the wars of our times." William Shawcross, Literary Review "His memoirs have... honesty, pace and readability." Jeremy Paxman "The chapters on the Falklands War are... one of the best things written about warfare in half a century." John Simpson, Daily Telegraph "This memoir is a first-class piece of reportage." Jon Swain, Sunday Times"


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780330377102
  • Publisher: Pan MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Pan Books
  • Height: 197 mm
  • No of Pages: 432
  • Weight: 311 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0330377108
  • Publisher Date: 06 Apr 2001
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Spine Width: 26 mm
  • Width: 130 mm


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