Horne, Sir Alistair, CBE

Hubris

The Tragedy of War in the Twentieth Century

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Six battles that changed the course of the twentieth century, and the one trait that links them all: hubris.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Orion Publishing Co
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 128mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 254g
• ISBN-13: 9781780222219
• ISBN-10: 1780222211
• Artikelnr.: 45088687

Autorenporträt

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 TELEPGRAPH. 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; in 2003 he was knighted for services to Franco-British relations. He died in 2017.