Alistair Horne

Sir Alistair Allan Horne

Horne became a senior member at

Horne was born on 9 November 1925.[3] He was the only son of Sir Allan Horne (died 1944)^[4] and Auriol (née Hay-Drummond),^{[citation needed]} 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.^[5] He seems to have hated Stowe, which he escaped from to America during wartime.^[6]

As a boy during

His first marriage was in 1953 to Renira Hawkins, the daughter of Admiral Sir Geoffrey Hawkins. They had three daughters. The marriage was dissolved in 1982, and, in 1987, he married Sheelin Lorraine Ryan, an artist and former wife of Simon Eccles, son of David Eccles, 1st Viscount Eccles.^[1] They lived at Turville, Buckinghamshire.^[8]

He campaigned against the opening of a

Horne was a cricket enthusiast.

Career

Horne worked as a

Horne was the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a work originally published (in two volumes) in 1988. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 received the Hawthornden Prize in 1963.^[8]

Horne's 1977 book A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962 received the

He endowed the Alistair Horne Fellowship at St Antony's College to provide financial assistance and college membership to young historians focused on writing a book on modern history. Those receiving the fellowship are able to become senior members of St Antony's.[2]

Selected works

• Return to Power: A Report on the New Germany. New York: Praeger, 1956.
  OCLC 184441
• The Land is Bright. 1958.
• Canada and the Canadians. Toronto: Macmillan, 1961.
• The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916. New York:
  OCLC 397845
• ISBN 978-0-141-03063-0
  .
• To Lose a Battle: France 1940. London, Macmillan, 1969.
• Death of a Generation Neuve Chapelle to Verdun and the Somme 1970
• The Terrible Year:
  The Paris Commune
  , 1871. London, Macmillan, 1971.
• Small Earthquake in Chile: A Visit to Allende's South America. London: Macmillan, 1972. (Expanded edition, 1990.)
• A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954–1962. London: Macmillan, 1977.
  ISBN 0670619647
• Napoleon, Master of Europe 1805–1807. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1979.
  ISBN 0297776789
• The French Army and Politics, 1870–1970. New York: Peter Bedrick Books, 1984.
• Harold Macmillan. New York: Viking Press, 1988. [Official biography]
  • Volume I: 1894-1956
  • Volume II: 1957-1986
• A Bundle from Britain. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993.
• Montgomery, David (co-author). Monty: The Lonely Leader, 1944–1945. New York: HarperCollins, 1994.
• How Far from Austerlitz? Napoleon, 1805–1815. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1996.
  ISBN 0312155484
• Horne, A. (ed.).Telling Lives: From W.B. Yeats to Bruce Chatwin. London: Papermac, 2000.
• Seven Ages of Paris. London: Macmillan, 2002. American ed.,
  ISBN 0679454810
• The Age of Napoleon. New York: Modern Library, 2004.
  ISBN 1588363643
• Friend or Foe: An Anglo-Saxon History of France. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2004.
  ISBN 0297848941
• La Belle France: A Short History.
  ISBN 1400041406
• The French Revolution. Carlton Books, 2009.
• Kissinger: 1973, The Crucial Year. Simon & Schuster, June 2009.
  ISBN 9780743272834
• But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage. London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2011.
  ISBN 029784895X
• Hubris: The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century. Harper, 2015.
  ISBN 9780062397805