But What Do You Actually Do?
A Literary Vagabondage
Published on 8. September 2011
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-0-297-84895-0 (ISBN)
Description
This wonderfully entertaining journey takes us from Alistair Horne's childhood as a wartime evacuee in America to his career as a highly successful historian and biographer, via a stint as a foreign correspondent for the Daily Telegraph. We travel with him from Germany to America, from Canada to France, from Latin America to the Middle East. A consummate biographer, the pages of Horne's 'Literary Vagabondage' abound with vivid character sketches of the friends and foes that have shaped his life.
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"...a thumping pleasure to read." -- Richard Davenport-Hines The Spectator (8/10/2011)More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Orion Publishing Co
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 159 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
680 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-297-84895-0 (9780297848950)
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09/2011
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
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Person
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 Legion 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.