Max Hastings

Sir Max Hastings is a British journalist and military historian whose books are mostly histories of war. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, and as editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph and editor of the Evening Standard. His books include Overlord on the Normandy landings, Armageddon on the final campaigns in Germany in 1944-45, and Retribution, and he has also written on Vietnam, the Korean War and the Cuban Missile Crisis. Several of his histories have won major awards.