Max Hastings is well-known for his TV and newspaper commentaries on a remarkable range of issues, embracing war, the media, politics and the countryside. He has presented documentaries for every major British broadcast channel, and in 2004 contributed widely to coverage of the 60th anniversary of D-Day coverage, live from the BBC TV studio in Normandy and with a 60-minute documentary for Radio 2. The author of 18 books, most recently the best-selling and much-praised Armageddon: The Battle for Germany 1944-45, he also presented Winston's War for Channel 4 in 2003. After spending many years as a foreign correspondent, most famously in the 1982 Falklands War, for 16 years he was editor successively of The Daily Telegraph and Evening Standard. He is now once again committed to writing and broadcasting. His new book Warriors will be published in 2005, and he contributes regularly to the Daily Mail, Guardian and Sunday Telegraph. He lectures regularly, mostly on historical themes, giving the Liddell-Hart lecture at King's College, London, of which he is an Honorary Fellow, and the 2003 Mountbatten Lecture at Edinburgh University. He has been President of the Campaign to Protect Rural England since 2002, and was knighted in that year.