Going to the wars
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Going to the wars
Macmillan, 2000
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Includes index
Plates: between p. 112-113, and between p. 272-273
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Description
"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 of heroes when he understood that he did not have what it took to be a hero himself.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements - i: Permissions Acknowledgements
Section - ii: List of Maps and Illustrations
Section - iii: Foreward
Chapter - 1: Tarnished Wings
Chapter - 2: Street Apprentice
Chapter - 3: A Taxi to Biafra
Chapter - 4: Shooting Vietnam
Chapter - 5: Ticket to Firebase Six
Chapter - 6: Yom Kippur
Chapter - 7: Israel's Victory
Chapter - 8: Bush War
Chapter - 9: Goodbye to Da Nang
Chapter - 10: The Fall of Saigon
Chapter - 11: Savimbi's Angola
Chapter - 12: Yoni
Chapter - 13: Voyage to the South Atlantic
Chapter - 14: On the Shore
Chapter - 15: Mount Kent
Chapter - 16: Walking to Stanley
Section - iv: Postscript
Index - v: Index
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