Alan Palmer

Alan Warwick Palmer (1926 – 25 March 2022) was 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.

Palmer died on 25 March 2022, at the age of 95.^[2]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1980.^[3]

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)

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.

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

^ History Study Centre: Retrieved 24 April 2012.; Faber author page: Retrieved 24 April 2012.
^ "Palmer, Alan Warwick". The Times. 8 April 2022. Retrieved 8 April 2022.
^ "Royal Society of Literature All Fellows". Royal Society of Literature. Archived from the original on 5 March 2010. Retrieved 10 August 2010.