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But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage

But What Do You Actually Do?: A Literary Vagabondage

by SirAlistairHorneCBE (Author)

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    Hardcover 2011

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Synopsis

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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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 416
 Edition: 1st
 Publisher: W&N
Published: 08 Sep 2011
ISBN 10: 029784895X
ISBN 13: 9780297848950
Book Overview: A sparkling memoir by one of our greatest historians.

Media Reviews
...a thumping pleasure to read. -- Richard Davenport-Hines The Spectator (8/10/2011)
Author Bio
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.