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Going to the Wars

Door Max Hastings

Categorie
Algemeen Militaria
Boeknummer
#251956
Titel
Going to the Wars
Auteur
Hastings, Max
Boektype
Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij
MacMillan
Jaar van uitgave
2000
ISBN10
0333771044
ISBN13
9780333771044
Taal
Engels
Samenvatting
"A superb account of journalists, soldiers and the experience of modern battle, written by one of the greatest war reporters of our time." Robert Harris

Max 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, and a war correspondent 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 doings o
... (Lees verder)f heroes when he understood that he did not have what it took to be a hero himself.
Pagina's
400
Conditie
Goed
Prijs
€ 10,00

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