"In this elegantly written and hugely entertaining book, Alistair Horne, one of our finest historians, tells the dramatic story of one wof the world's most beautiful and best-loved cities, and in doing so offers a rich and colourful insight ...

Britain's premier historian on France from Caesar to Mitterrand - to coincide with the centenary of the Entente Cordiale A century after the Entente Cordiale ended centuries of war and enmity between France and Britain, and two hundred ...

Opening with the military preparations before Paris was besieged by the invading German army in September 1870, Alistair Horne's compelling account of this dramatic episode takes the reader through the fall of Paris and German victory to ...

Alistair Horne's The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune, 1870-71 is the first book of Alistair Horne's trilogy, which includes The Price of Glory and To Lose a Battle and tells the story of the great crises of the rivalry between ...

The life of Henry Kissinger seen through one seminal year - 1973

' It is a question the historian and biographer Alistair Horne has come to dread. This book is an attempt to answer it in telling the story of a life that he unapologetically calls his 'literary vagabondage'.

This volume tells the story of the evacuations of children from wartorn Britain to America during World War II. Alistair Horne was "a bundle from Britain" who found himself in very different circumstances on his arrival in the United States ...

Based on full access to Henry Kissinger and his papers, acclaimed historian Horne brings readers a groundbreaking treatment of the controversial presidential advisor during 1973--the critical year of his life.