Max Hastings

Max Hastings is, to my mind, a model of the journalist who became a historian without losing the reporter's eye. Having covered conflict for the BBC before editing The Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard, he writes military history with the texture of someone who actually walked battlefields. Thirty-plus books, a Knighthood, a Somerset Maugham Award and a Royal Historical Society fellowship attest to a formidable second act. What I admire most is how he renders vast wars as human stories rather than dry chronology. I trust prose earned on foot far more than prose written only from archives.

Name (English)

Max Hastings

Name (Japanese)

マックス・ヘイスティングス

Reading

まっくす・へいすてぃんぐす

Born

December 28, 1945 (age 80)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Rooster

Origin

Lambeth, United Kingdom

Occupation

journalist / military historian / writer

University

University College, Oxford

Awards & achievements

• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society
• 1996 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• Knight Bachelor
• 1980 Somerset Maugham Award

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Max%20Hastings
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q726622

Tags

• journalist
• military historian
• writer

Last updated

2026-06-21

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