Alistair Horne
Author · 19 books
Sir Alistair Allan Horne was an English journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France. He wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography. He won the following awards: Hawthornden Prize, 1963, for The Price of Glory; Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize and Wolfson Literary Award, both 1978, both for A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962; French Légion d'Honneur, 1993, for work on French history;and Commander of the British Empire (CBE), 2003.
Series
Books
The French Revolution
2008
The Price of Glory
Verdun 1916
1962
Hubris
The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century
2014
What If? 2
Eminent Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
2000
The Fall of Paris
The Siege and the Commune 1870-71
1965
A Savage War of Peace, Part 1
Algeria 1954-1962
2008
To Lose a Battle
France 1940
1969
Kissinger's Year
1973
2008
Friend or Foe
A History of France
2004
The French Army and Politics
1984
A Savage War of Peace
Algeria 1954-1962
1977
Beautiful France
2005
The Age of Napoleon
2004
How Far from Austerlitz?
Napoleon 1805-1815
1997
What If?
The World's Foremost Historians Imagine What Might Have Been
1999
Napoleon
Master of Europe
1979
Small earthquake in Chile
1972
Seven Ages of Paris
2002
The Lonely Leader
Monty 1944-45
1994
