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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 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
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