Max Hastings

Operation Pedestal

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Produktbeschreibung

The Sunday Times bestseller'One of the most dramatic forgotten chapters of the war, as told in a new book by the incomparable Max Hastings' DAILY MAIL

Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 153mm x 235mm x 39mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780008364953
• ISBN-10: 0008364958
• Artikelnr.: 59998830

Autorenporträt

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-seven books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, then editor of the Evening Standard. He has won many prizes both for journalism and his books, of which the most recent are All Hell Let Loose, Catastrophe and The Secret War, best-sellers translated around the world. 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.

Rezensionen

"An eye-level view of mortal danger set against a major inflection point during World War II. . . . Operation Pedestal is the story of desperate warriors shepherding a frail cargo through all the fire and steel their enemy can hurl. Mr. Hastings paints a portrait of naval combat with an artist's brush guided by more than a half-century of combat reportage. Compassionate toward men who braved bombs, torpedoes, fire and a cruel sea, he showcases the Royal Navy-along with the merchant vessels it guarded-at its finest hour." Wall Street Journal