Max Hastings
English journalist, editor, historian and author · United Kingdom · On the map · Journalists · Born 1945 · age 80
Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings is a British journalist and military historian 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.
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Hastings currently writes a bimonthly column for Bloomberg Opinion and contributes to The Times and The Sunday Times.
