- Title:
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Ultimate War Giftpack (CD PACK)
- Written by:
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Frederic Manning; Cameron Forbes; Max Hastings
- Read by:
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Richard Aspel; Stanley McGeagh; Cameron Stewart
- Format:
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Unabridged CD Audio Book
- Number of CDs:
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40
- Duration:
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46 hours 48 minutes
- Published:
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August 01 2014
- Available Date:
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August 01 2014
- Age Category:
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Adult
- ISBN:
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9781486239160
- Genres:
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Non-fiction; Australian; History; Military; World War I
- Publisher:
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Bolinda audio
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International bestselling author
'A brilliant and compelling book which must rank, even by the standards Max Hastings has set, as a masterpiece.'
London Review of Books
"It is a splendid piece of storytelling …"
The Weekend Australian
"The finest and noblest book of men in war that I have ever read."
Ernest Hemingway
Critically acclaimed on publication, The Korean War remains the best narrative history of this conflict.
On 25 June 1950 the invasion of South Korea by the Communist North launched one of the bloodiest conflicts of the last century. The seemingly limitless power of the Chinese-backed North was thrown against the ferocious firepower of the UN-backed South in a war that can be seen today as the stark prelude to Vietnam.
Max Hastings has drawn on first-hand accounts of those who fought on both sides to produce this vivid and incisive reassessment of the Korean War, bringing the military and human dimensions into sharp focus.
The Korean War was a 20th Century conflict that has never ended. South Korea, a powerhouse economy and dynamic democracy sits uneasily alongside North Korea, the world’s most secretive, belligerent, unpredictable and repressive totalitarian state. Today, tensions simmer and occasionally flare into outright violence on a peninsula dense with arms, munitions and nuclear warheads.
Cameron Forbes, acclaimed author of Hellfire, tells the story of the war and Australia’s involvement in it in a riveting narrative. From the letters and diaries of those diggers who fought across Korea’s unforgiving hills and mountains to the grand strategies formulated in Washington, Moscow and Beijing, The Korean War reveals the conflict on all its levels - human, military and geopolitical.
First published anonymously in 1929 because its language was considered far too frank for public circulation, The Middle Parts of Fortune was hailed by T.S. Eliot and Ezra Pound, by Lawrence of Arabia and Ernest Hemingway, as an extraordinary novel. Its author was in fact Frederic Manning, an Australian writer who fought in the Battle of the Somme in 1916, and who told his story of men at war from the perspective of an ordinary soldier.
'Rings true and will surely stand the test of time ... Max Hastings has no peer as a writer of battlefield history.'
Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Eisenhower: The President and Nixon: The Education of a Politician