Max Hastings wins substantial US writing prize for military history

He has won the $100,000 2012 Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing

Sir Max Hastings, formerly editor and editor-in-chief of The Daily Telegraph and editor of the Evening Standard, has written 23 books on miliatry history. The most recent, Inferno: The World at War, was published in America as All Hell Let Loose.

The Pritzker Military Library Literature Award for Lifetime Achievement in Military Writing is given for a body of work that enriches pulic understanding of US military history.

Commenting on this year's award, military library founder Colonel J.N. Pritzker said: 'Hastings is a gifted narrative historian who has made a significant contribution to the way we understand military conflict from a global perspective … He has a keen ability for connecting the plans of world leaders with the battlefield actions of individual soldiers. Perhaps most importantly, his accessible style of writing brings the story of the Citizen Soldier to a broad audience and makes him popular amongst scholars and the casual reader.'

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