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But What Do You Actually Do? - A Literary Vagabondage

Name: But What Do You Actually Do?
Price: 3.99 EUR
Author: Alistair Horne
ISBN: 9780297865131

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Alistair Horne

Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Paru le : 07/09/2011

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... > Lire la suite

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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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Date de parution : 07/09/2011
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN : 978-0-297-86513-1
EAN : 9780297865131
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Biographie d'Alistair Horne

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.