English journalist, editor, historian and author (born 1945)
Sir
Max Hastings
FRSL FRHistS
Hastings in 2013
Born
Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings
(1945-12-28) 28 December 1945 (age 78)
Lambeth, London, England
Education
University College, Oxford
Occupation(s)
Journalist, editor, author
Employers
BBC
Evening Standard
The Daily Telegraph
Spouses
Patricia Edmondson
(m. 1972; div. 1994)
Penelope Levinson
(m. 1999)
Children
3
Parents
Macdonald Hastings (father)
Anne Scott-James (mother)
Relatives
Clare Hastings (sister)
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald HastingsFRSL FRHistS (/ˈheɪstɪŋz/; born 28 December 1945)[1] is a British journalist and military historian,[2] who has worked as a foreign correspondent for the BBC, editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph, and editor of the Evening Standard. He is also the author of thirty books, most significantly histories, which have won several major awards. Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.
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daughter of Macdonald Hastings and Anne Scott-James, and sister to MaxHastings. Hastings worked for over 30 years as a fashion journalist, stylist and costume...
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centennial of the start of World War I, Michael Gove and war historian MaxHastings complained about the so-called "Blackadder version of history". Atkinson's...
increasing power of the Chinese Communists. The journalist and historian MaxHastings writes: "De Wiart despised all Communists on principle, denounced Mao...
Division's 102nd Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron. However, military historian MaxHastings notes that Culin was inspired by "a Tennessee hillbilly named Roberts"...
city provoked unease in intellectual circles in Britain. According to MaxHastings, by February 1945, attacks upon German cities had become largely irrelevant...
the lead-writing desk of The Daily Telegraph, having met its editor, MaxHastings, while at university. His articles appealed to the newspaper's Conservative-voting...
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