In his autobiography, Max Hastings records his experiences reporting from the battlefields of Northern Ireland, Biafra, Vietnam, Cambodia, the Middle East, Rhodesia and other trouble spots. It is also the story of a self-confessed coward, a writer with heroic ambitions but knowing he did not have what it takes to be a hero himself.
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Höhe: 234 mm
Breite: 153 mm
Dicke: 37 mm
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978-0-333-77104-4 (9780333771044)
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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.
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