Catastrophe: Max Hastings

Catastrophe, Max Hastings’ narrative of WW1 to the end of 1914, combines the grasp of a first class historian with a novelist’s acute eye for human detail. His blend of vivid top-down and bottom-up testimonies, from a host of witnesses, linger in the imagination. Told with his customary pace, sense of landscape, battlefield knowledge and character portraits, Catastrophe tells the story of how Europe embarked on the first of the 20th century’s global tragedies. Max Hastings is the author of 24 books and has had a distinguished career as a journalist. See more at: This event was part of the Charleston Festival 2014 and took place on 21st May 2014 and was supported by EFG Private Bank.