The collapse of France in 1870 had an overwhelming impact - on Paris, on France and on the rest of the world. People everywhere saw Paris as the centre of Europe and the hub of culture, fashion and invention. Suddenly France, not least to the disbelief of her own citizens, was gripped in the vice of the Iron Chancellor's armies and forced to ...
A learned and passionate account of the City of Light--its growth, change, and importance--through seven epochs in history, from the 13th century to 1969. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
The battle of Verdun lasted ten months. It was a battle in which at least 700,000 men fell, along a front of fifteen miles. Its aim was less to defeat the enemy than bleed him to death and a battleground whose once fertile terrain is even now a haunted wilderness. Alistair Horne's classic work, continuously in print for over fifty years, is a ...
The Algerian War (1954-1962) was a savage colonial war, killing an estimated million Muslim Algerians and expelling the same number of European settlers from their homes. It was to cause the fall of six French prime minsters and the collapse of the Fourth Repbulic and came close to bringing down de Gaulle and - twice - to plunging France into ...
In 1940, the German army fought and won an extraordinary battle with France in six weeks of lightning warfare. With the subtlety and compulsion of a novel, Horne's narrative shifts from minor battlefield incidents to high military and political decisions, stepping far beyond the confines of military history to form a major contribution to our ...
"La Belle France" is a sweeping, grand narrative written with all the verve, erudition and vividness that are the hallmarks of the acclaimed British historian Alistair Horne. It recounts the hugely absorbing story of the country that has contributed to the world so much talent, style and political innovation. Beginning with Julius Caesar's ...
An account of the German assault on the French fortress, the aim of which was not so much to defeat the enemy as to bleed him to death. The price was 700,000 dead on a 15 mile front. The author also wrote "The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71" and "A Savage War of Peace".
Verdun was the battle which lasted ten months in which at least 700,000 men fell along a front of fifteen miles. The aim was less to defeat the enemy than to bleed him to death. Verdun's once fertile terrain is even now the "nearest thing to desert in Europe". The book is not only a chronicle of the facts of death, it is a study of the men who ...
Alistair Horne has also written "The Price of Glory - Verdun 1916", "To Lose a Battle - France 1940" and "A Savage War of Peace", which won the Yorkshire Post Book of the Year Award and the Wolfson Literary Award.
This factual account of German war crimes of World War II is a formidable indictment of Nazi brutality and of the monstrous organization which so terrorized occupied Europe and murdered at least 12,000,000 civilians. Along with The Knights of Bushido: A Short History of Japanese War Crimes by the same author, it was a phenomenal bestseller when ...
Six months before the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, Field Marshal The Lord Bramall warned that an operation to remove Saddam Hussain would produce a display of massive, dynamic United States activity which provides one of the mainsprings of motivation for terrorist action in the Middle East and, far from advancing the 'war on terrorism', it ...
This book follows the life of Field Marshall Montgomery from D-Day to Germany's surrender. The authors analyze his decisions, explain his approach to war, and note when and why it succeeded or failed. Montgomery was disliked for his arrogance and criticized for his caution. The authors detail his failings without neglecting the many qualities ...
Six months before the 2003 American-led invasion of Iraq, Field Marshal The Lord Bramall warned that an operation to remove Saddam Hussain would produce a display of massive, dynamic United States activity which provides one of the mainsprings of motivation for terrorist action in the Middle East and, far from advancing the 'war on terrorism', it ...
General Montgomery lead the 8th Army to victory at El Alamein in 1942, and as Chief of Land Forces in the Allied invasion of Normandy in 1944, he received Germany's surrender in 1945. Concentrating on the momentous events of Operation Overlord from June 1944, "The Lonely Leader" follows Monty's leadership of the Allied offensive to Luneburg Heath ...
"La Belle France "is a sweeping, grand narrative written with all the verve, erudition, and vividness that are the hallmarks of the acclaimed British historian Alistair Horne. It recounts the hugely absorbing story of the country that has contributed to the world so much talent, style, and political innovation. Beginning with Julius Caesar's ...
A century after the Entente Cordiale ended centuries of war and enmity between France and Britain, and two hundred years after the coronation of Britain's deadly enemy, Napoleon Bonaparte, as Emperor, Alistair Horne contemplates two thousand years of France. The Entente Cordiale meant different things to the signatories. For France it meant, quite ...
A portrayal of the most significant events in 19th-century France. It begins with the military operations from the beginning of the Siege, in September 1870, to the last resistance of the Commune during May Week 1871.
From one of England's greatest historians comes the first volume of a landmark authorized biography of the 20th-century leader regarded, after Churchill, as England's greatest statesman. 32 pages of photos.
Concentrating on the momentous events following Operation Overlord until the German surrender in 1945, Alistair Horne and David Montgomery (Montgomery's only son) cast a new light on the life and leadership of one of the Second World War's most respected generals.
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