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Book SynopsisMax Hastings is the author of thirty books, most about conflict, including
Bomber Command,
Armageddon,
Das Reich,
The Korean War,
The Battle for the Falklands,
Vietnam,
Operation Pedestal and
Abyss, and editor of two anthologies. He worked as a reporter for BBC television and British newspapers, covering eleven wars, including Vietnam, the 1973 Yom Kippur war and the Falklands war. Between 1986 and 2002 he served as editor-in-chief of
The Daily Telegraph, then editor of the
Evening Standard. He has won many prizes for both journalism and his book
s. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, an Honorary Fellow of King's College, London, and was knighted in 2002. He has two grown-up children, Charlotte and Harry, and lives with his wife Penny in West Berkshire, where they garden enthusiastically.
