Max Hastings grew up with romantic dreams of a life amongst warriors But after an embarrasing false start as a parachute soldier in 1963, he became a journalist and a war correspondant instead He learned his trade as a correspondent in race riots in America and amid Northern Ireland's first big clashes in 1969, but his greatest moment came in 1982 when he walked alone into Port Stanley, ahead of the British landing force, in pursuit of a last great scoop