Sir Alistair Horne was born in London in 1925, and has spent much
of his life abroad, including periods at schools in the United
States and Switzerland. He served with the R.C.A.F. in Canada in
1943 and ended his war service with the rank of Captain in the
Coldstream Guards attached to MI5 in the Middle East. He then went
up to Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature
and played international ice-hockey.
After leaving Cambridge, Alistair Horne concentrated on writing: he
spent three years in Germany as correspondent for the Daily
Telegraph and speaks fluent French and German. His books include
Back into Power; Small Earthquake in Chile; The Price of Glory:
Verdun 1916 ; and The Seven Ages of Paris. A Savage War of Peace:
Algeria 1954–62 won both the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize
and the Wolfson History Award in 1978, and he is the official
biographer of Harold Macmillan. In 1970, he founded a research
Fellowship for young historians at St Antony’s College, Oxford. In
1992 he was awarded the CBE; in 1993 he received the French Légion
d’Honneur for his work on French history and a Litt.D. from
Cambridge University.
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