Sir Alistair Allan HorneCBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017)[1] was a British historian and academic best known for his works about armed conflicts involving 19th- and 20th-century France, including his classic about the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace. A former spy and journalist, Horne wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography.
Horne became a senior member at St Antony's College, Oxford in 1970 and a fellow of the college in 1978. He was made an honorary fellow in 1988, a position he held until his death. He was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours in 2003 for services to Anglo-French relations.[2]
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Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 – 25 May 2017) was a British historian and academic best known for his works about armed conflicts involving...
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sometimes in circumstances of extreme cruelty. In A Savage War Of Peace, AlistairHorne wrote: Hundreds died when put to work clearing the minefields along...
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Operations as far back as WWII. Examples include A Savage War of Peace by AlistairHorne and The Centurions by Jean Larteguy. The origin of the term operator...
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irregular-warfare missions in Nazi-occupied Poland and France. Journalist AlistairHorne, who described himself in 2012 as one of the few people still alive...
of Oujda Group, Houari Boumediene who, according to the 1977 book by AlistairHorne, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, kept the assassins out of...
Leopold. Civil Wars and Monarchy in France, p. 467 Holt 1995, p. 149. AlistairHorne, Seven Ages of Paris, Random House (2004) F.P.G. Guizot (1787–1874)...
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Battle: France 1940, AlistairHorne Thomas 1997, p. 364. Patzwall & Scherzer 2001, p. 229. Scherzer 2007, p. 442. Horne, Alistair (1982) [1969]. To Lose...
AlistairHorne, The French Army and Politics, 1870–1970 (1984). J.F.V. Keiger, France and the World since 1870 (Arnold, 2001) p 207. Horne, Alistair (1977)...
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[roof] that weighs the house down". Macmillan's official biographer, AlistairHorne notes that Nellie's rebuilding of Birch Grove was "one of only two or...
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