"Mr Horne's book, recounting events in Germany since 1952, fills an important gap, for there is an obvious danger in d…"

"It is not in South-east Asia, the Middle East or Africa that the ideological battle of the seventies seems likely to …"

"But what really matters is...the question: "How many divisions does the Pope have?" In Chile it has been the concentr…"

"I was in Chile shortly after Allende came to power, and predicted the economic ruin to which his regime reduced the c…"

"Above all, what was most lacking on the French side was the will to fight. The memories of the 1,500,000 dead of the …"

"Alistair Horne has written a brilliant reportage-narrative history, highly compressed, using sources mainly hostile t…"

"Occasionally an epic subject encounters a fine historian. This the the case with the Algerian war and Mr Horne. The r…"

"One of the best written on the whole Algerian drama."

"It is clear that Horne's own political sympathies lie on the middle ground of rational reform and cooperation, none t…"

"In the fog of war Mr. Horne manages to show exactly what was happening, without ever going beyond the evidence. The b…"