Pros: Excellently written and explores Normandy campaign in a more critical fashion than previous accounts. Cons: Many readers will be put off by Hastings' conclusions, especially about the German army.
Having read Max Hastings' 1983 The Battle for the Falklands, a fascinating account of the short but bloody Anglo-Argentinian war over the Falkland Islands in the spring of 1982, I looked forward to another book by this up-and-coming British ...
Pros: Well written, offers a different perspective. Cons: None really.
D-Day, June 6th 1944,, the Longest Day, the invasion of Normandy is probably the most known battle of the Second World War. Numerous books, scholarly works and popular ones have been written about it. Many make the presumption that the invasion was ...
Pros: Willing to take a hard look at failure Cons: none
Author Max Hastings is one of the better known historians of our time. Hastings has perhaps one and a half dozen books about World War II, with a smaller amount covering other wars or internal strife of various countries. Hastings explains his ...
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