Max Hastings

Sir Max Hastings is a British journalist, editor, historian and author. After Marlborough College and Oxford University he became a foreign correspondent and reported from more than sixty countries and eleven wars for BBC TV and The Evening Standard in London. After ten years as editor and then editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph he returned to The Evening Standard as editor in 1996 until his retirement in 2001. He was knighted in 2002.

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British - Journalist - Editor - Historian - Author - Marlborough College - Oxford University - Foreign correspondent - BBC - Evening Standard - London - The Daily Telegraph - 1996 - 2001 - Knighted - 2002

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When Hastings was with the Second Paratroop Regiment as part of the British press corps reporting the Falklands War, the troops were ordered to stop but Hastings received no order and walked on, becoming the first man with the Falklands Task Force to arrive in the capital, Port Stanley. He then arranged an interview with the commanding officer of the Argentine forces who had occupied the islands. It was this audacity that won him a double award in 1982: Journalist of the Year and What the Papers Say Reporter of the Year.

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Journalist of the Year - What the Papers Say

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He has won many other awards for his journalism, including Editor of the Year in 1988.

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He has presented historical documentaries for BBC TV, and is the author of many books, including Bomber Command which earned the Somerset Maugham Award for nonfiction in 1980. Both Overlord and The Battle for the Falklands won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize.

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BBC - Somerset Maugham Award - 1980 - Yorkshire Post

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He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and was made President of the Council for the Protection of Rural England in 2002. He has three children and lives in Northamptonshire.

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Royal Society of Literature - Council for the Protection of Rural England - 2002

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