About Max Hastings
Sir Max Hastings is a British author, journalist and broadcaster. During his early career as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard, he reported on conflicts around the world, including Vietnam and the 1982 South Atlantic war. Among his many books are Battle for the Falklands (co-author Simon Jenkins, 1983), Nemesis: The Battle for Japan, 1944–5 (2007), All Hell Let Loose (2011), Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War, 1914 (2013) and The Secret War: Spies, Codes and Guerrillas, 1939–45 (2015). In 2008, Max Hastings was awarded the RUSI Duke of Westminster Medal for his lifetime contribution to Military Literature, and in 2012 the Pritzker Military Library of Chicago presented him with its Literary Award for Lifetime Achievement. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, he was knighted in 2002.