Max Hastings

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-eight books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph , then as edi-tor of the Evening Standard . He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam , The Secret War , Catastrophe , and All Hell Let Loose . Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College London, and a...See more

Max Hastings is the author of twenty-eight books, most about conflict, and between 1986 and 2002 served as editor in chief of the Daily Telegraph , then as edi-tor of the Evening Standard . He has won many prizes, for both his journalism and his books, the most recent of which are the bestsellers Vietnam , The Secret War , Catastrophe , and All Hell Let Loose . Knighted in 2002, Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College London, and a Bloomberg Opinion colum-nist. He has two grown children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife, Penny, in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically. See less