Chalke Talks for SPEAKER: Max Hastings

• VIETNAM: AN EPIC TRAGEDY 1945-1975
  Max Hastings ( 2019 )
  Published: 17th Mar 2021

  In an acclaimed retelling of the Vietnam tragedy, Max Hastings offers a balanced account of how and why the Vietnam War unfolded as it did, and a gripping description of what it was like to take part, based on the testimony of scores of participants – communist and anti-communist Vietnamese, Chinese railway engineers, Soviet missile […]

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• 134. CATASTROPHE: EUROPE GOES TO WAR, 1914
  Max Hastings ( 2014 )
  Published: 08th Oct 2021

  Journalist, editor and acclaimed author Sir Max Hastings tells the story of how Europe went to war in 1914 precipitating the first of the twentieth century’s great tragedies. He challenges the view of some modern historians that British participation was unnecessary and concludes with the Christmas truces when the struggle had lapsed into the stalemate […]

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• 162. DON MCCULLIN: IRRECONCILABLE TRUTHS
  Don McCullin, Max Hastings ( 2017 )
  Published: 17th Dec 2021

  Legendary photographer Don McCullin first met Max Hastings in Cambodia in 1970. Here they discuss Sir Don’s long career from his time as a war photographer to his recent work in Syria, as well as some of the themes with which they are both familiar: fear, suffering and the terrible cost of war.

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