ARMAGEDDON: THE BATTLE FOR GERMANY 1944-1945
by Max Hastings
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0375414339
- ISBN 13
- 9780375414336
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About This Item
This is a stated first US edition, and first printing, of Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-1945, by the British military historian Max Hastings.
In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten and expected the bloodshed to end by Christmas. But a series of mistakes and setbacks, including the Battle of the Bulge, led to eight more months of brutal fighting. 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, offers vivid portraits of the great leaders and brings to life the crucial final months of the 20th century's greatest global conflict.
584 pages, including lots of photos.
Unclipped dust jacket.
Near-mint condition.
NOTE: My quoted price for shipping OUTSIDE of North America is for surface mail without tracking. For other shipping options, please contact me.Synopsis
Armageddon is the epic story of the last eight months of World War II in Europe by Max Hastings--one of Britain's most highly regarded military historians, whose accounts of past battles John Keegan has described as worthy "to stand with that of the best journalists and writers" (New York Times Book Review).In September 1944, the Allies believed that Hitler's army was beaten, and expected that the war would be over by Christmas. But the disastrous Allied airborne landing in Holland, American setbacks on the German border and in the Hurtgen Forest, together with the bitter Battle of the Bulge, drastically altered that timetable. Hastings tells the story of both the Eastern and Western Fronts, and paints a vivid portrait of the Red Army's onslaught on Hitler's empire. He has searched the archives of the major combatants and interviewed 170 survivors to give us an unprecedented understanding of how the great battles were fought, and of their human impact on American, British, German, and Russian soldiers and civilians. Hastings raises provocative questions: Were the Western Allied cause and campaign compromised by a desire to get the Soviets to do most of the fighting? Why were the Russians and Germans more effective soldiers than the Americans and British? Why did the bombing of Germany's cities continue until the last weeks of the war, when it could no longer influence the outcome? Why did the Germans prove more fanatical foes than the Japanese, fighting to the bitter end? This book also contains vivid portraits of Stalin, Churchill, Eisenhower, Montgomery, and the other giants of the struggle. The crucial final months of the twentieth century's greatest global conflict come alive in this rousing and revelatory chronicle.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Louise Aird (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 734
- Title
- ARMAGEDDON: THE BATTLE FOR GERMANY 1944-1945
- Author
- Max Hastings
- Format/Binding
- Excellent
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First US
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0375414339
- ISBN 13
- 9780375414336
- Publisher
- Knopf/Borzoi
- Place of Publication
- United States
- Date Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 584
- Keywords
- Battle of the Bulge, World War II
- Bookseller catalogs
- War Stories; Military History; World History;
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