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Max Hastings and the Tragedy of War
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Max Hastings and the Tragedy of War

By Timothy Sandefur

Mar 06, 2019
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Many of the English language’s greatest writers have made history, rather than fiction or poetry, their primary focus. Edward Gibbon and Thomas Babington Macaulay, for example, were masters of prose as well as insightful historians. Today, the heir to their title is Max Hastings, the prolific military historian whose latest book, Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy

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