Max Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. After leaving the University of Oxford he became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and The Evening Standard in London. After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph he returned to The Evening Standard as editor in 1996 until his retirement in 2001. He was knighted in 2002.
He has won many awards for his journalism, including Journalist of The Year and What the Papers Say Reporter of the Year for his work in the South Atlantic in 1982, and Editor of the Year in 1988.
He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV, and is the author of many books, including Bomber Command which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction in 1980. Both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was made President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England in 2002. He has three children and lives in Northamptonshire.
Works
- Country Fair (HarperCollins, 2005) ISBN 0007198868
- The Warriors: Exceptional Tales from the Battlefield (HarperCollins, 2005) ISBN 000719756X
- Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45 (Macmillan, 2004) ISBN 0333908368
- Editor: A Memoir (Macmillan, 2002) ISBN 0333908376
- Going to the Wars (Macmillan, 2000) ISBN 0333771044
- Scattered Shots (Macmillan, 1999) ISBN 0333771036
- Victory in Europe: D-Day to V-E Day (Little Brown & C, 1992) ISBN 0316813346
- Outside Days (Michael Joseph, 1989) ISBN 0718133307
- The Korean War (Michael Joseph, 1987) ISBN 071812068X, (Simon & Schuster, 1987) ISBN 0671528238
- Victory in Europe (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1985) ISBN 0297786504
- Overlord: D-Day and the Battle for Normandy (Simon & Schuster, 1984) ISBN 0671460293
- The Battle for the Falklands by Max Hastings, Simon Jenkins (W W Norton, 1983) ISBN 0393017613, (Michael Joseph, 1983) ISBN 0718122283
- Das Reich: March of the Second Ss Panzer Division Through France (Henry Holt & Co, 1982) ISBN 003057059X
- Das Reich: Resistance and the March of the Second S.S. Panzer Division Through France, June 1944 (Michael Joseph, 1981) ISBN 0718120744
- Battle of Britain by Len Deighton, Max Hastings (Jonathan Cape, 1980) ISBN 0224018264
- Yoni - Hero of Entebbe: Life of Yonathan Netanyahu (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1980) ISBN 0297775650
- Bomber Command (Michael Joseph, 1979) ISBN 0718116038
- Montrose: The King's Champion (Gollancz, 1977) ISBN 0575022264
- Ulster 1969: The Fight for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland (Gollancz, 1970) ISBN 0575004827
- America, 1968: The Fire This Time (Gollancz, 1969) ISBN 0575002344
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