“Magisterial. . . . Hastings’s gripping narrative blends
individual accounts, sweeping reconstructions of battles and
devastating criticisms of military and political leaders.” –The
Washington Post Book World“Splendid . . . A book anyone with an
interest in modern warfare will want to read.” –The New York
Times Book Review“A grand achievement. Max Hastings is a
brilliant military historian who enthralls the reader by combining
mastery of high strategy and low tactics with poignant
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內容簡介:
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler’s army
was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. Yet a
series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge,
drastically altered this timetable and led to eight more months of
brutal fighting. With Armageddon, the eminent military
historian Max Hastings gives us memorable accounts of the great
battles and captures their human impact on soldiers and civilians.
He tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, raising
provocative questions and offering vivid portraits of the great
leaders. This rousing and revelatory chronicle brings to life the
crucial final months of the twentieth century’s greatest global
conflict.
關於作者:
Max Hastings was a foreign correspondent and the editor of
Britain’s Evening Standard and the Daily Telegraph.
He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV, and is the
author of eighteen books, including Bomber Command, which
earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction, The Korean
War and Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy,
1944. He lives outside London.