Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command , Armageddon , Das Reich , The Korean War , The Battle for the Falklands , Vietnam , Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph , then editor of the Evening...See more

Max Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including Bomber Command , Armageddon , Das Reich , The Korean War , The Battle for the Falklands , Vietnam , Operation Pedestal and Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph , then editor of the Evening Standard . He has won many prizes for both journalism and his book s . He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically. See less