Product Description

Pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings presents Winston Churchill as he has never been seen before.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #69242 in Books
• Published on: 2009-09-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 664 pages

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Review

Praise for ‘Nemesis’

‘“Nemesis” is a triumph…provocative, insightful ….impressive……Put all these elements together - the ambition, insight, sureness of touch - and you have a book of real quality.’ Sunday Times

‘Spectacular…Hastings makes important points about the war in the East that have been all too rarely heard…excellent…compelling…searingly powerful.’ Sunday Telegraph

‘As Hastings brilliantly describes, conditions for fighting men on both sides were appalling…the fire-bombing of Tokyo and the decision to drop the atomic bombs were influenced by the urge to “get this business over with”, but the argument, as Hastings explains so well with his usual exemplary judgement, is far more complex.’ Financial Times

‘He writes with colour and decisiveness…His depiction of Japanese intransigence, brutality and self-delusion and the cultural chasms between East and West are particularly vivid’ Sunday Telegraph

About the Author

Max Hastings studied at Charterhouse and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard. He has won many awards for his journalism. Among his bestselling books ‘Bomber Command’ won the Somerset Maugham Prize, and both ‘Overlord’ and ‘Battle for the Falklands’ won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize. After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph, he became editor of the Evening Standard in 1996. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was knighted in 2002. He now lives in Berkshire.