Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (died 2017)

Alistair Horne

British writer and historian

Sir Alistair Allan Horne was a British historian and academic best known for his works about armed conflicts involving 19th- and 20th-century France, including his classic about the Algerian War, A Savage War of Peace. A former spy and journalist, Horne wrote more than 20 books…