Peter Hore (historian)
Peter G Hore FRHistS (born 1944) naval officer, historian and obituarist, served a full career in the Royal Navy (1962-2000), spent ten years working in the cinema and television industry (2000-2009) and is a successful biographer and obituarist. One of his books, Habit of Victory, was the Daily Telegraph reader's choice and another book, Sydney, Cipher and Search was praised for its literary quality and depth of research and shortlisted for the Mountbatten Media Awards. His reasons for becoming an historian are published at British Naval History.[1]
Captain Peter Hore served worldwide as a logistics specialist in the
During his Navy service he qualified as an interpreter in Spanish in 1968, interpreter in Swedish in 1970 and linguist in Cantonese in 1986. During the 1982 Falklands War he was the Joint Logistics Commander on Ascension Island, and he has since had the unusual distinction of both having helped to direct the Royal Navy's applied research programme (1992-4) and having headed its non-technical research programme (1997-2000). From 1997-2000 he was Head of Defence Studies during the British government's Strategic Defence Review.
Public Appointments
He is a former Vice President of the Royal Navy Museum and was chairman of its Curatorial Working Party (now the
In 2011 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society,[2] and was elected a corresponding member of the Royal Swedish Society of Naval Sciences.
He is also a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Linguists.
Cinema and Television
In 2000-09 he was Chief Executive of the
Written works
Peter Hore is the editor or author of many reviews, articles and books including three biographies, numerous obituaries and several books on naval history and strategy. He is recognized at Historic Naval Fiction [4] as an established author.
In 2009 his book Sydney, Cipher and Search,
He is a consultant and contributor to the authoritative
- Dunlop, Samuel Clarke (1922–2008)[9]
- Le Bailly, Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland (1915–2010)[10]
- Tippet, Sir Anthony Sanders (1928–2006).[11]
Recent books include Dreadnought to Daring: 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate; Nelson’s Band of Brothers: Their Lives and Memorials, containing a selection of rare illustrations and the biographies of all the officers who commanded under
His latest book is Lindell’s List, the life and times of a group of American and British agents who were imprisoned by the Germans in the Second World War and rescued by the Swedish Red Cross from the ‘women’s hell’, a concentration camp at
Peter Hore has contributed more than 1000 obituaries to the
Books
A partial bibliography is on Amazon.[13]
- With Iain Ballantyne, 'Submarine, 1901-2001' (St Leonards-on-Sea: HPC, 2001) ISBN 9780953142125
- With A. Bentley-Buckle, 'Through Albert's Eyes' (Dunbeath: Whittles, 2013) ISBN 1849950660
- (Editor) 'Training or Education: A Naval Dilemma over Three Centuries', in Hudson Papers Vol.1 (Ministry of Defence, 2001)
- With Derek Allen, 'News of Nelson' (Brussels: Seff Editions, 2005) ISBN 9782960041170
- With Eric Grove, 'Dimensions of Seapower: Strategic Choice in the Modern World' (Hull: University of Hull Press, 1998)
- 'Dreadnought to Daring: 100 Years of Comment, Controversy and Debate in The Naval Review' (London: Seaforth, 2012) ISBN 1848321481
- 'Nelson's Band of Brothers: Their Lives and Memorials' (London: Seaforth, 2015) ISBN 9781848327795
- 'Seapower Ashore: 200 Years of Royal Navy Operations on Land' (London: Chatham in association with National Maritime Museum, 2000) ISBN 9781861761552
- 'The Genesis of Naval Thinking since the End of the Cold War' (London: Maritime Strategic Studies Institute, 1999)
- 'A Myth Too Many', The Trafalgar Chronicle, 22 (2012)
- 'Battleships' (London: Lorenz, 2004) ISBN 9780754814078
- 'British Submarine Policy from St Vincent to Arthur Wilson', in 100 Years of the Trade, 1st edn (Lancaster: CDISS, 2001)
- 'Every Dog Shall Do His Duty', The Trafalgar Chronicle, 20 (2010)
- 'HMS Pickle: The Swiftest Ship in Nelson's Fleet at Trafalgar' (Stroud: The History Press, 2015) ISBN 0750964359
- 'John Richards Lapenotiere, HM Schooner Pickle and Their Fifteen Minutes of Fame', Mariner's Mirror, 91 (2005)
- 'Lord Melville and the Secret Steam Plan', The Mariner's Mirror, 86 (2000), 157-172 http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00253359.2000.10659236
- 'Maritime Aviation: Light and Medium Aircraft Carriers into the Twenty First Century' (Hull: University of Hull Press, 1999) ISBN 9780859586887
- 'Nelson, Nesbit and Nevis', The Kedge Anchor, March (2011)
- 'Patrick Blackett: Sailor, Scientist and Socialist' (London: Cass, 2003) ISBN 9780714653174
- 'Royal Navy and Royal Marines Operations, 1964 -1996' (London: Maritime Strategic Studies Institute, 1998)
- 'Sydney Cipher and Search: Solving the Last Great Naval Mystery of the Second World War' (Rendlesham: Seafarer Books, 2009) ISBN 1906266085
- 'The Fleet Air Arm and British Naval Operations over Norway and Sweden: Part 1 Autumn of 1940', Forum Navale, Stockholm, 2012
- 'The Fleet Air Arm and British Naval Operations Over Norway and Sweden: Part II Operation Paul the Plan of Attack on Iron-Ore Exports From Neutral Sweden', Forum Navale, Stockholm, 2014
- 'Operation Paul – the Fleet Air Arm attack on Luleå in 1940'. http://www.sjohistoriskasamfundet.se/fn_split/fn70_a04.pdf
- 'The Habit of Victory' (London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 2005) ISBN 9780283073120
- 'The Logistics Miracle of Ascension Island', in The Falklands Conflict 20 Years on. (Cass: London, 2005) ISBN 0415350301
- With Mervyn Wingfield, 'Wingfield At War' (Dunbeath: Whittles Publishing Company, 2012) ISBN 1849950644
- 'Lindell's List: Saving British and American Women at Ravensbrück'. Published September 2016. ISBN 9780750966214
In addition
Numerous newspaper and magazine articles, including regular features and op-ed articles for Warships International Fleet Review, the Kedge Anchor and Trafalgar Chronicle. Since 2015 he has been the editor of the Trafalgar Chronicle
References
- ^ Peter Hore Historian
- ^ RHS members
- ^ Peter Hore retires as CEO
- ^ Author Peter Hore recognised
- ^ HMS Sydney Book Review
- ^ Reading List - HMAS Sydney
- ^ "Sir Robert Craven Trophy". Journal of the Britannia Naval Research Association (Volume 5 no. 3 page 67) carries details of the first ten awardees and their citations for research by the Britannia Nautical Research Association at Oxford
- ^ Warships International Fleet Review Editorial staff
- ^ Dunlop, Samuel Clarke (1922–2008)
- ^ Le Bailly, Sir Louis Edward Stewart Holland (1915–2010)
- ^ Tippet, Sir Anthony Sanders (1928–2006)
- ^ Peter Hore biographies
- ^ Peter Hore Bibliography
- ^ 1805 Club council member profiles