Sir Alistair Horne, CBE, LittD

Career: served RAF 1943-44, Coldstream Gds 1944-47, Capt attached to Intelligence Serv (ME); foreign corr Daily Telegraph 1952-55; founded Alistair Horne Research Fellowship in Modern History St Antony's Coll Oxford 1969 (supernumerary fell 1978-88, hon fell 1988-), fell Woodrow Wilson Centre Washington DC 1980-81, hon fell Jesus Coll Cambridge 1996-, distinguished visiting scholar Library of Congress USA 2005; lectr, journalist and contrib to a number of books and various periodicals; memb: Mgmnt Ctee Royal Literary Fund 1969-90, Franco-Br Cncl 1979-94, Ctee of Mgmnt Soc of Authors 1979-81; tstee Imperial War Museum 1975-82; Chevalier Légion d'Honneur 1993; FRSL

Books and Publications: Back into Power (1955), The Land is Bright (1958), Canada and the Canadians (1961), The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 (1962, Hawthornden Prize 1963), The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71 (1965), To Lose a Battle: France 1940 (1969), Death of a Generation (1970), The Terrible Year: The Paris Commune (1971), Small Earthquake in Chile (1972), A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-62 (1972, Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Prize 1978, Wolfson Literary Award 1978), Napoleon Master of Europe 1805-07 (1979), The French Army and Politics 1870-1970 (1984, Enid Macleod Prize), Macmillan 1894-1956, Vol I (1988), Macmillan 1957-86, Vol II (1989), A Bundle from Britain (1993), The Lonely Leader: Monty 1944-45 (1994), How far from Austerlitz? Napoleon 1805-1815 (1996), Telling Lives: From W B Yeats to Bruce Chapman (ed, 2000), Seven Ages of Paris (2002), Age of Napoleon (2004), Friend or Foe (2004), La Belle France (2008), The French Revolution (2008), Kissinger: The Crucial Year 1973 (2009), But What Do You Actually Do? (2011)