Alan Palmer

Alan Warwick Palmer (born 1926) is a British author of historical and biographical books.

Background[]

Palmer was educated at Bancroft's School, Woodford Green, London, and Oriel College, Oxford. He spent 19 years as senior history teacher at Highgate School before becoming a full-time writer and researcher.^[1] His late wife, Veronica Palmer collaborated on several of his books.

Honours and awards[]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980.^[2]

Bibliography[]

Biographies[]

• Twilight of the Habsburgs: The Life and Times of Emperor Francis Joseph (1997). ISBN 978-0-87113-665-7.
• A Brief History of Napoleon in Russia
• Kings and Queens of England
• Napoleon & Marie Louise: the Emperor's second wife
• Bernadotte: Napoleon's Marshal, Sweden's King
• The Life and Times of George IV
• Metternich (1972)
• (in German) Metternich. Der Staatsmann Europas (1977; 1986). ISBN 978-3-546-47346-0.
• Alexander I: Tsar of war and peace
  • (in German) Alexander I. Gegenspieler Napoleons (1984). ISBN 978-3-453-55114-5.
  • (in German) Alexander I. Der rätselhafte Zar, Ullstein, Berlin (1994). ISBN 3-548-35402-5.
• The Kaiser: Warlord of the Second Reich (1978). ISBN 978-0-297-77393-1.
• Bismarck
• Kemal Atatürk (Makers of the 20th Century)
• Princes of Wales
• The Royal House of Greece
• The Chancelleries of Europe
• Franz Joseph I
• Frederick The Great
• Sam Boyce (Australia)

History[]

• The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire (1993). ISBN 978-0-87131-754-4.
  • (in German) Verfall und Untergang des Osmanischen Reiches (1997). ISBN 978-3-453-11768-6.
• Victory, 1918
• Nations and empires
• Age of optimism
• The gardeners of Salonika
• Russia in War and Peace London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson (1972). ISBN 0-297-99565-0.
• The Baltic: A New History of the Region and Its People
• Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and Its Peoples (2005). ISBN 978-0-7195-6287-7. (2006). ISBN 978-0-7195-6299-0.
• Napoleon in Russia
• Napoleon's Russian Campaign (2003). ISBN 978-0-7867-1263-2.
• Banner of Battle: Story of the Crimean War (1987). ISBN 978-0-297-79042-6.
• East End: Four Centuries of London Life (2000). ISBN 978-0-7195-5666-1. (2004). ISBN 978-0-7195-6640-0.
• The Salient (2007). ISBN 978-1-84119-633-6.

Reference works[]

• A Dictionary of Modern History, 1789–1945 (1964).
• A military atlas of the First World War (1975, with Arthur Banks). ISBN 0-3128-7096-5.
• Who's Who in Shakespeare's England (1981). ISBN 0-3128-7096-5.
• The Penguin Dictionary of Twentieth Century History (2nd ed., 1983). ISBN 0-1405-1131-8.
• Penguin Dictionary of Modern History, 1789–1945
• Quotations in History: A Dictionary of Historical Quotations
• Who's Who in Modern History
• An Encyclopaedia of Napoleon's Europe (1984). ISBN 978-0094787001.
• The Facts on File Dictionary of 20th Century History
• Dictionary of the British Empire and Commonwealth
• Who's Who in World Politics
• A Dictionary of Modern Politics
• The Chronology of British History

References[]

External links[]

• Works by or about Alan Palmer at Internet Archive