The Terrible Year by Sir Alistair Horne Cbe
A bestselling historian on a crucial episode in French history.
Alistair Horne was educated at Le Rosey, Switzerland, and Jesus College, Cambridge. He ended his war service with the rank of Captain in the Coldstream Guards attached to MI5 in the Middle East. From 1952 to 1955 he worked as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. In 1969 he founded the Alistair Horne research fellowship in modern history, St Antony's, Oxford. His numerous books on history and politics have been translated into over ten languages, he was awarded the Hawthornden prize (for THE PRICE OF GLORY) and the Wolfson prize (for A SAVAGE WAR OF PEACE). In 1992 he was awarded the CBE; in 1993 he received the French Légion d'Honneur for his work on French history and a Litt.D. from Cambridge University. He was knighted in 2003 for services to Franco-British relations.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781842127599 |
| ISBN 10 | 1842127594 |
| Title | The Terrible Year |
| Author | Sir Alistair Horne Cbe |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Orion Publishing Co |
| Year published | 2004-12-02 |
| Number of pages | 192 |
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