Going to the Wars

''A superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time'' - Robert Harris ''His memoirs have . . . honesty, pace and readability'' - Jeremy Paxman 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 thirty 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 Falklands 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.

Product details

• Authors: Max Hastings
• Publisher: Pan Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781035057337
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3505733-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 131 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Journalism, Society & social sciences, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, Biography: general, HISTORY / Military / General, Military history: post WW2 conflicts, Press & journalism, Warfare & defence, Later 20th century c 1950 to c 1999, Falklands, Warfare and defence, Military history: post-WW2 conflicts, Reportage, journalism or collected columns, c 1945 to c 2000 (Post-war period), Biography, Literature and Literary studies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General