Max 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 books. 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. Language: English