UPCOMING EVENTS
Max will be talking about Operation Pedestal at the following venues: Read More
NEWS
RAVE REVIEWS FOR OPERATION PEDESTAL
‘Outstanding … this book like all his others … is a cracker. With his usual combination of sensitivity to human suffering and superb dramatic instinct, Hastings has given us a gripping tale … The immediacy of this book obliterates the cold detachment that time’s passage usually allows …We feel in… Read More
Max Hastings at Sea
Ahead of the publication of Operation Pedestal in May, here is Max submerged aboard a Royal Navy submarine of War II vintage, at sea in 1966. Read More
WE NEED TO TOUGHEN UP FOR THE PAIN AHEAD
The British people must accept that coronavirus is not going away any time soon and we shall just have to work with it. Read More
Max on Samuel Pepys’ brilliant take on the 1665 London plague
CORONAVIRUS: Max is self-isolating in Berkshire, working on his new book PEDESTAL The Fleet’s Battle To Malta 1942. You may like to read his essay published in The Times of London last month, about how Samuel Pepys responded to the plague of 1665. Read More
RAVE REVIEWS IN THE US FOR CHASTISE
Reviews are in for Chastise in America. Read More
Professor Sir Michael Howard
Below is Max’s tribute to Britain’s foremost historian, Professor Sir Michael Howard OM, CH, MC, FBA, which he delivered on 25 February 2020 at a memorial service held at King’s College, London, following Sir Michael’s death on 29 November. Read More
Rave Reviews for Chastise
'Max’s Hastings’s CHASTISE is a virtuoso performance ... Read mo