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.

Info autore

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Max Hastings
• Editore: Pan Books
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.02.2025
• EAN: 9781035057337
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3505733-7
• Pagine: 448
• Dimensioni: 131 mm x 197 mm x 28 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Tematiche generali, enciclopedie; 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