British writer on history and biography

Alan Warwick Palmer (1926 – 25 March 2022) was a British author of historical and biographical books.

Contents

• 1 Background
• 2 Personal life
• 3 Honours and awards
• 4 Bibliography
  • 4.1 Biographies
  • 4.2 History
  • 4.3 Reference works
• 5 References
• 6 External links

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. His late wife, Veronica Palmer collaborated on several of his books.

Personal life

Palmer died on 25 March 2022, at the age of 95.

Honours and awards

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980.

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 S*s: 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