Armageddon : The battle for Germany 1944-1945
Author(s): Max Hastings
A stunning new book from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians - destined to be the Keegan of his generation.One of the greatest military feats during the Second World War was the transformation of the German force's activities in the weeks following the battles in Holland and the German border, where the Allies had finally inflicted the greatest catastrophes of modern war on them.Somehow the Germans found the strength to halt the Allied advance in its tracks and to prolong the war to 1945. This book is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe.
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"'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals' Times Literary Supplement 'Max Hastings now stands in the first rank of writers on modern war' Financial Times"
MAX HASTINGS, author of eighteen books, was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, then for six years edited the Evening Standard. In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He has won many awards for his journalism, particularly his work in the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002.
General Fields
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- : Pan Macmillan
- : Pan Books
- : 01 April 2005
- : 197mm X 130mm
- : United Kingdom
- : books
Special Fields
- : Max Hastings
- : Paperback
- : 940.5421
- : good
- : 684
- : 32pl
