Quotes by Alistair Horne

“The Canadian is not an American - at least, not entirely, not yet”

Christmas 1972 was a lonely time for Kissinger, as well as for his boss, and a period of serious reflection. Kissinger was then a bachelor, enamored of the tall, elegant, but elusive WASP Nancy Maginnes, but still very much a bachelor - Washingtons most sought-after bachelor.

Following 9/11, intelligence indicated numerous links between al-Qaeda and Algeria. It began to look as though the roots of jihad could be traced back to the war in Algeria that began 50 years ago.

Over the past years, I have lectured many times on the Cuban missile crisis, most provocatively to 200 senior officers of the former Soviet army in Moscow in 1991, among them KGB generals. There, my knowledge of Penkovskys role was thoroughly confirmed, and so was the Soviet military mens residual sense of humiliation at Khrushchevs blink.