Alistair Horne (1925–2017)
Auteur van A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962
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Alistair Allan Horne was born in London, England on November 9, 1925. He enlisted in the Royal Air Force, but failed to qualify for pilot training because of poor eyesight. He later joined the Coldstream Guards, attaining the rank of captain. When the war ended, he was transferred to the toon meer Intelligence Corps and stationed in Cairo where he monitored Soviet activity in the Balkans. He received a master's degree in English in 1949 from Jesus College, Cambridge. Before becoming an author, he was a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph and a spy for MI6, Britain's foreign intelligence service. His books included The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71; To Lose a Battle: France 1940; Small Earthquake in Chile: A Visit to Allende's South America; The French Army and Politics, 1870-1970; Seven Ages of Paris; The Age of Napoleon; La Belle France: A Short History; and Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 won the Hawthornden Prize and A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 won the Wolfson Prize. He wrote several memoirs including A Bundle from Britain and But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage. He was knighted in 2003. He died on May 25, 2017 at the age of 91. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Officiële naam
- Horne, Sir Alistair Allan
- Geboortedatum
- 1925-11-09
- Overlijdensdatum
- 2017-05-25
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- UK
- Geboorteplaats
- London, England, UK
- Plaats van overlijden
- Turville, Buckinghamshire, England, UK
- Woonplaatsen
- England, UK
USA - Opleiding
- Millbrook School
Jesus College, University of Cambridge (MA|1949 - English) - Beroepen
- foreign correspondent
historian - Relaties
- Buckley, William F., Jr. (friend)
- Organisaties
- Royal Air Force, 1943-1944
Coldstream Guards, 1944-1947
The Daily Telegraph - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Commander, Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (1992)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1968)
Chevalier, Ordre de la Légion d'honneur (1993)
Knight Bachelor (2002)
Fellow, St Antony's College, Oxford University
Hawthornden Prize (1963) (toon alle 7)
Wolfson Prize (1978) - Korte biografie
- 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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