Max Hastings

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Max Hastings (2013)

Sir Macdonald Max Hastings (born December 28, 1945 in London ) is a British journalist and military writer. He was editor of the Daily Telegraph and the Evening Standard .

Life

He is the son of the British journalist and war correspondent Macdonald Hastings , u. a. responsible for the literary magazine The Strand Magazine , and his first wife Anne Scott-James , who temporarily edited the fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar . His cousin Sir Stephen Hastings was a politician (Tories).

Max Hastings attended the private school Charterhouse School in Godalming. In 1963 he served briefly in the British Army's Parachute Regiment . From 1963 to 1964 he dealt with historical broadcast documents of the BBC . In 1964/65 he studied at University College of the University of Oxford , which he left after a year. From 1965 to 1967 he was a reporter for the London Evening Standard . From 1968 to 1970 he was a foreign correspondent a . a. in the USA. From 1970 to 1973 he was a commentator on the TV format Twenty-Four Hours . He then worked for more than ten years as a foreign correspondent and war reporter for print and television (including BBC Television). He reported u. a. from the Vietnam War and the Falklands War . From 1986 to 1995 he was the editor and editor-in-chief of the Daily Telegraph , after which he returned as editor to the Evening Standard , where he remained until his retirement in 2001. He currently writes as a columnist for the tabloid Daily Mail , but also contributes articles to reputable newspapers such as the Financial Times , and is a reviewer for the Sunday Times and the New York Review of Books .

In 1994 (subject: D-Day: Decisive moment of the Second World War in the West) and 2013 (subject: Catastrophe: How Europe went to war in 1914) he was a guest speaker at the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives at King's College London . In 2010 he gave the Lees Knowles Lecture on Military History at the University of Cambridge (Subject: The British Army in the Second World War).

In 1987 he became trustee of the Game Conservancy and in 1988 of the Liddell Hart Center for Military Archives. In 1991 he became a member of the Press Complaints Commission , which was dissolved in 2014. Hastings was a trustee of the National Portrait Gallery (1995-2004) and chairman of the Campaign to Protect Rural England (2002-2007). He is also a member of u. a. The Other Club , Beefsteak Club , Brooks's Club, and Saintsbury Club .

He is a member of the Church of England , married for the second time, has two children and lives in Hungerford , Berkshire .

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SURNAME Hastings, Max
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hastings, Macdonald Max (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and military writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 28, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH London