Alistair Horne
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Sir Alistair Horne CBE FRSL |
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| Born |
9 November 1925 London, England |
| Notable work |
A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 |
Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (born 9 November 1925) is a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France. He has written more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography.
Horne was born on 9 November 1925. He is a son of Sir Allan Horne (died 1944) and Auriol (née Hay-Drummond), niece of the 13th Earl of Kinnoull. He was educated at Eastacre, then Ludgrove School when it was at Cockfosters and described Ludgrove as a place of "humbug, snobbery and rampant, unchecked bullying" which he thought was intended to toughen the boys up. As a boy during World War II, Horne was sent to live in the United States. He attended Millbrook School, where he befriended William F. Buckley, Jr., who remained a lifelong friend. Horne served in the RAF in 1943–44 and later as an officer in the Coldstream Guards from 1944 to 1947. He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge as a Master of Arts (MA) and in 1993 received the degree of LittD from the University of Cambridge.
He lives with his wife Sheelin in Oxfordshire.
Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955. He is the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a work originally published (in two volumes) in 1988. Horne is an Honorary Fellow of St Antony's College, Oxford, and a cricket enthusiast. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 received the Hawthornden Prize in 1963.
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