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b>'As a military historian Max Hastings has few equals.' - Times Literary Supplement /b>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 on 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. Armageddon by Max Hastings is the epic story of those last eight months of the war in northern Europe.
Table des matières
Introduction - i: Introduction Section - ii: The Principal Commanders and their Forces Chapter - 1: Time of Hope Chapter - 2: The Bridges to Arnhem Chapter - 3: The Frontiers of Germany Chapter - 4: The Russians at the Vistula Chapter - 5: Winter Quarters Chapter - 6: Germany Beseiged Chapter - 7: Hell in the Hurtgen Chapter - 8: The Bulge: An American Epic Chapter - 9: Stalin's Offensive Chapter - 10: Blood and Ice: East Prussia Chapter - 11: Firestorms: War in the Sky Chapter - 12: Marching on the Rhine Chapter - 13: Prisoners of the Reich Chapter - 14: Collapse in the West Chapter - 15: 'The Earth Will Shake As We Leave The Scene' Chapter - 16: The Bitter End Acknowledgements - iii: Acknowledgements Section - iv: Sources and References Index - v: Index
A propos de l'auteur
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.
Résumé
Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 is the stunning bestseller from one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians.
