Hastings, Max: - 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 two grown children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife, Penny, in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically..
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 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 .
Hastings, Max: - 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