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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Knopf
Price: $35.00
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MAX HASTINGS discusses Retribution:The Battle for Japan, 1944 – 45
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome military historian and former foreign correspondent MAX HASTINGS to discuss the final year—and world-changing events—of the Pacific war against Japan. By the summer of 1944 it was clear that Japan’s defeat was inevitable, but how the drive to victory would be achieved remained to be seen. The ensuing drama—that ended in Japan’s utter devastation—was acted out across the vast stage of Asia, with massive clashes of naval and air forces, fighting through jungles, and barbarities by an apparently incomprehensible foe. In recounting the saga of this time and place, Max Hastings gives us incisive portraits of the theater’s key figures—MacArthur, Nimitz, Mountbatten, Chiang Kai-shek, Mao, Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin. But he is equally adept in his portrayals of the ordinary soldiers and sailors—American, British, Russian, Chinese, and Japanese—caught in some of the war’s bloodiest campaigns. Hastings discusses Japan’s war against China, now all but forgotten in the West, MacArthur’s follies in the Philippines, the Marines at Iwo Jima and Okinawa, and the Soviet blitzkrieg in Manchuria. He analyzes the decision-making process that led to the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki—which, he argues, ultimately saved lives. Finally, he delves into the Japanese wartime mind-set, which caused an otherwise civilized society to carry out atrocities that haunt the nation to this day.
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617.661.1515
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Wednesday, April 30th |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Max Hastings is the author of eighteen books, including Bomber Command, which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction, The Korean War, and Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy, 1944. He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV and served as a foreign correspondent and as the editor of Britain’s Evening Standard and The Daily Telegraph, receiving numerous British Press Awards, including Journalist of the Year in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988. He lives outside London.
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