Alistair Horne

Sir Alistair Allan Horne (born November 9, 1925 in London - † May 25, 2017 in Oxfordshire ) was a British journalist and biographer as well as a historian who dealt in particular with the French history of the 19th and 20th centuries.

Life

Horne was the son of Sir Allan Horne and Auriol Horne, née Hay-Drummond. As a boy, he was sent to the United States at the start of World War II . Horne served in the Royal Air Force from 1943 to 1944 and later as an officer in the Coldstream Guards (1944-1947). After the war he graduated from Cambridge with a Master of Arts degree .

Horne worked, among other things, as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph . He wrote the biography of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan , published in two volumes in 1988, and a biography of US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger . In addition, Horne published books on Napoleon , the Siege of Paris (1870–1871) , the Battle of Verdun , the Battle of France in 1940 as well as the Algerian War and the Iraq War.

Three of his books have been translated into German:

• The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune appeared as The Prussians probably crossed the Rhine
• To Lose a Battle: France in 1940 was in German and the French campaign in 1940 published
• The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 was published by Köhler Verlag as Des Ruhmes Lohn

For The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 Horne received the Hawthornden Prize in 1963 .

Works

• Canada and the Canadians. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961.
• The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1962.
• The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-1. London: Macmillan, 1965.
• To Lose a Battle: France 1940. London, Macmillan, 1969.
• Napoleon, Master of Europe 1805-1807. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
• Harold Macmillan. New York: Viking Press, 1988.
• Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year. Simon & Schuster, June 2009.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituaries , accessed on May 28, 2017