His memoirs have ... honesty, pace and readability.' Jeremy PaxmanMax 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 30 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.
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Going to the Wars is a personal account of being a journalist on the front line, written by one of the greatest war reporters of the 20th century.
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
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Max Hastings is one of the greatest living war correspondents.
Going to the Wars is a personal account of being a journalist on the front line, written by one of the greatest war reporters of the 20th century.

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781447266594
Publisert
2014-02-13
Utgiver
Vendor
Macmillan
Vekt
689 gr
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Dybde
25 mm
Aldersnivå
00, G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Antall sider
432

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Biographical note

Sir Max Hastings, author of numerous books including Armageddon, Going to the Wars, and Das Reich, was editor of the Daily Telegraph for almost a decade, then for six years he edited the Evening Standard.

In his youth he was a foreign correspondent for newspapers and BBC television. He learned his trade as a correspondent in race riots in America and amid Northern Ireland's first big clashes in 1969. He first visited Vietnam and Cambodia for BBC TV in 1970, and then went again and again, until he left Saigon for the last time by helicopter out of the American Embassy as the city fell in April 1975. In the 1973 Middle East war, he reported from the Golan Heights and the Suez front as Israel fought for its life. In Rhodesia in the early 1970s, he masqueraded as a game hunter to seek out the secrets of the Rhodesian guerrilla war, and almost retired from war corresponding after he came close to being shot in cold blood by marauding Turkish soldiers during the invasion of Cyprus in 1974.In 1982, the Falklands crises lured him back and he sailed from Southampton with the South Atlantic Task Force. He landed at San Carlos with 40 Commando, joined the SAS for a night helicopter landing on Mount Kent, reported from the Royal Navy's ships during the air battles, and romped across the island with the land force. On 14 June, he walked alone into Port Stanley ahead of the British land force in pursuit of a last great scoop.

He has won many awards for his books and journalism, particularly his work in the South Atlantic in 1982. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.