Sir Max Hastings    

 

 

 

 

 

Sir Max Hastings is an author, journalist and broadcaster whose work has appeared in every British national newspaper. He now writes regularly for the Daily Mail and the Financial Times, of which he is a contributing editor, and reviews books for the Sunday Times and New York Review of Books. He has published 23 books, among the most recent of which are his Second World War history, All Hell Let Loose (2011), Did You Really Shoot the Television?: A Family Fable (2010) and Finest Years: Churchill As Warlord 1940–45 (2009).

He spent most of his early years as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and the London Evening Standard, reporting on 11 conflicts, notably Vietnam and the 1982 South Atlantic war, which inspired Battle for the Falklands, the 1983 best-seller he wrote with Simon Jenkins. He was editor, then editor-in-chief, of the Daily Telegraph from 1986 to 1995, and of the Evening Standard from 1996 to 2002. He has described his journalistic career in two memoirs, Going to the Wars (2000) and Editor (2002). His new book, Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914, will be published in the autumn of 2013.
He has presented many TV documentaries. A Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Fellow of King’s College, London, he has also received honorary degrees from Leicester and Nottingham universities. He was knighted in 2002 for services to journalism.

Sir Max Hastings: Accounts From Abroad
Tuesday 14 May, 6.00pm  $20
Middleton Grange School
Tickets: Dash Tickets

www.maxhastings.com

Interview on National Radio

The Press Christchurch Writers Festival has partnered with Auckland Writers and Readers Festival to bring Sir Max Hastings to New Zealand. We acknowledge the support of Harper Collins UK and Harper Collins NZ.