It was always inevitable that if you get serious trouble in any family then everybody's inclined to look at the head of that family and see if they see any cause or reason to associate it with the head of the, head of the family, why it should be.

Hastings was the first journalist to enter the liberated Port Stanley during the 1982 Falklands War. Hastings is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Historical Society. In 2010 he received the Royal United Services Institute's Westminster Medal for his 'lifelong contribution to military literature' and the same year the Edgar Wallace Award from the London Press Club.

Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings FRSL FRHistS (born 28 December 1945) is a British journalist editor historian and author.