Alistair Horne, Author . Modern Library $21.95 (240p) ISBN 978-0-679-64263-3
Two centuries on, Napoleon remains very much a part of European political discourse, as French foreign minister Dominique de Villepin's recent 600-page canonization of the Corsican-born leader made clear. From the pen of the popular historian...
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Alistair Horne, Author . Knopf $30 (512p) ISBN 978-1-4000-4140-4
If this "sister work" of Horne's delightful Seven Ages of Paris
is "the culmination of some four decades of a love affair with France," the relationship between author and mistress shows no signs of waning. Horne takes his lover&
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Alistair Horne, Author . Simon & Schuster $30 (457p) ISBN 978-0-7432-7283-4
Oxford University historian Horne (Harold Macmillan
) presents a busy snapshot of America’s controversial superdiplomat in this admiring biographical study. The year 1973 ran Henry Kissinger, Richard Nixon’s chief foreign policy adviser,
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Alistair Horne, Author Penguin Books $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-014530-4
Events that shaped a young emotional romantic into the stern pragmatist who became Britain's prime minister are revealed here in what PW called a ``magisterial, engrossing'' and ``highly candid portrait'' that is ``crammed with revelations.'' Photos.
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Alistair Horne, Author Penguin Books $19.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-14-014532-8
The authorized biography's conclusion spans the time from Macmillan's stint as British prime minister (1957-1963) to his death in 1986. ``Horne makes liberal use of Macmillan's letters and diaries, which shed new light on his premiership years and...
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Alistair Horne, Author, Louis Auchincloss, Introduction by St. Martin's Press $23.95 (333p) ISBN 978-0-312-11136-6
Horne ( Macmillan: 1957 - 1986 ) was evacuated to the U.S. at the outbreak of WW II, when he was 14. In this occasionally witty but anticlimactic memoir, he describes the three years (1940-1943) he spent living with John and Rossy Cutler and their...
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Alistair Horne, Author, Maurice Druon, Foreword by, Alistair Horne, Preface by , foreword by Maurice Druon. Knopf $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-679-45481-6
London is male, New York sexually ambivalent, writes Horne. But "has any sensible person ever doubted that Paris is fundamentally a woman?" The renowned historian (The Fall of Paris,
etc.) thus conceives of his history of the city of lights
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Alistair Horne, Author, Sir Alistair Horne, Author Viking Books $24.95 (560p) ISBN 978-0-670-80502-0
Although known for his unflappability, British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan was actually highly strung from childhood. He was a solitary adolescent, molded by his forbidding American mother from Indiana and his publisher father, descendant of...
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