Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books, including * Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945,and Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945.He spent his early career as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and various newspapers, then as editor of Britain's Even...

Max Hastings is the author of more than twenty books, including * Catastrophe 1914: Europe Goes to War, Inferno: The World at War, 1939-1945,and Winston's War: Churchill 1940-1945.He spent his early career as a foreign correspondent for BBC TV and various newspapers, then as editor of Britain's Evening Standard and Daily Telegraph *. He has received numerous awards for both his books and his journalism. He lives in the English countryside west of London.