Alistair Horne AKA Alistair Allan Horne Born: 9-Nov-1925 Birthplace: London, England Died: 25-May-2017 Location of death: Turville, Buckinghamshire, England Cause of death: unspecified
Gender: Male Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Historian Nationality: England Executive summary: Seven Ages of Paris Military service: RAF (1943-44); British Army (Coldstream Guards, 1944-47) Father: Allan Horne (d. 1944 automobile accident) Mother: Auriol Hay-Drummond Wife: Sheelin
High School: Ludgrove School High School: Millbrook School, Millbrook, NY University: Jesus College, Cambridge University University: LittD, Cambridge University
The London Daily Telegraph Foreign Correspondent (1952-55)
Commander of the British Empire 1992 French Legion of Honor 1993 Knighthood 2003
Author of books:
Return to Power: A Report on the New Germany (1956, history) The Land is Bright: A Portrait of America (1958, regional affairs) Canada and the Canadians (1961, regional affairs) The Price of Glory: Verdun, 1916 (1962, history) The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 (1965, history) To Lose a Battle: France, 1940 (1969, biography) Death of a Generation: Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme (1970, history) The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune, 1871 (1971, history) Small Earthquake in Chile: A Visit to Allende's South America (1972, travelogue) A Savage War of Peace: Algeria, 1954-1962 (1977, history) Napoleon: Master of Europe, 1805-1807 (1979, biography) The French Army and Politics, 1870-1970 (1984, history) Harold Macmillan (1988, biography) A Bundle from Britain (1993, memoir) Monty: The Lonely Leader, 1944-1945 (1994, biography) How Far from Austerlitz: Napoleon, 1805-1815 (1996, biography) Seven Ages of Paris: Portrait of a City (2002, history) The Age of Napoleon (2004, history) Friend or Foe: An Anglo-Saxon History of France (2004, history) The French Revolution (2009, history) Kissinger: 1973, the Crucial Year (2009, biography) But What Do You Actually Do? A Literary Vagabondage (2011, memoir) Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century (2015, history)
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