{"product_id":"max-hastings-warriors-2005-hardback","title":"Max Hastings: Warriors [2005] hardback","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn exhilarating and uplifting account of the lives of sixteen `warriors' from the last three centuries, hand-picked for their bravery or extraordinary military experience by the eminent military historian, author and ex-editor of the Daily Telegraph, Sir Max Hastings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eOver the course of forty years writing about war, Max Hastings has grown fascinated by outstanding deeds of derring-do on the battlefield (land, sea or air) - and by their practitioners. He takes as his examples sixteen people from different nationalities in modern history - including Napoleon's `blessed fool' Baron Marcellin de Marbot (the model for Conan Doyle's Brigadier Gerard); Sir Harry Smith, whose Spanish wife Juana became his military companion on many a campaign in the early 19th century; Lieutenant John Chard, an unassuming engineer who became the hero of Rorke's Drift in the Zulu wars; Captain Karl von Muller of the light cruiser Emden whose predations in the South China Sea on behalf of the German Imperial Navy in World War I earned him the title of `the gentleman of war'; the Australian-born man of letters Frederic Manning whose account of trench warfare, Her Privates We, is unrivalled; Squadron Leader Guy Gibson, the `dam buster' whose heroism in the skies of World War II earned him the nation's admiration but few friends and various other assorted combatants.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e          \u003cp\u003eEvery army, in order to prevail on the battlefield, needs a certain number of people capable of courage beyond the norm. In this book Max Hastings investigates what this norm might be - and how it has changed over the centuries. While celebrating feats of outstanding valour, he also throws a beady eye over the awarding of medals for gallantry - and why it is that so often the most successful warriors rarely make the grade as leaders of men.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Hastings, Max","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":53324128452947,"sku":"9780007197569","price":26.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":53324128485715,"sku":"XG80007197569","price":8.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/hastings-max-max-hastings-warriors-2005-hardback-1228947285.jpg?v=1774391678","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/max-hastings-warriors-2005-hardback","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}