Nemesis : the battle for Japan, 1944-45 / Max Hastings.

By: Hastings, Max [author].

Material type: materialTypeLabel

BookPublisher: London : Harper Press, 2007Copyright date: ©2007Description: xxv, 674 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780007219827 (hardback); 0007219822 (hardback).Subject(s): World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Japan

DDC classification: 940.54252

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
General Lending	MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending	940.54252 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		00110987

Total holds: 0

Browsing MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library shelves, Shelving location: Lending Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous								Next
Previous	940.5421 Overlord : D-Day and the battle for Normandy /	940.5421421 D-day : the Battle for Normandy /	940.54219218 Arnhem : the battle for the bridges, 1944 /	940.54252 Nemesis : the battle for Japan, 1944-45 /	940.5426 The USS Arizona : the ship, the men, the Pearl Harbor attack, and the symbol that aroused America /	940.5449 The hurricats /	940.545 Three tiffies and a sweeper /	Next

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A narrative history of the climactic battles of the Second World War, and companion volume to his bestselling 'Armageddon', by the pre-eminent military historian Max Hastings.

Formerly CIP. Uk.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

British journalist, editor, and historian Max Hastings was born on December 28, 1945. He was a foreign correspondent for BBC television and London's Evening Standard, for which he later served as editor from 1996 to 2001. Hastings also worked as editor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph.

In addition to presenting BBC historical documentaries and writing numerous books of military history, Hastings has contributed to publications including the Daily Mail, The Guardian, and the New York Review of Books. He received the nonfiction Somerset Maugham Award for Bomber Command, as well as the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize for both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands. His title Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War made The New York Times Best Seller List in 2013. The Secret War: Spies, Ciphers, and Guerrillas, 1939-1945 was published in 2016 and is also on the New York Times Bestsellers List.

Hastings was knighted in 2002, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, and from 2002-2007 was President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England.

(Bowker Author Biography)