Alan Moorehead (1910–1983)

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1. Alan Moorehead

   Author of The White Nile, The Russian Revolution, No Room in the Ark

2. Stephen Jay Gould

   Author of Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History, Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms, Time's Arrow, Time's Cycle: Myth and Metaphor in the Discovery of Geological Time (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)

3. Barbara W. Tuchman

   Author of The Guns of August, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam, Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

4. John Keegan

   Author of The First World War, The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme, Six Armies in Normandy: From D-Day to the Liberation of Paris

5. Robert K. Massie

   Author of Peter the Great, Dreadnought, Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany, and the Winning of the Great War at Sea

6. Alistair Horne

   Author of A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, The Fall of Paris: The Siege and the Commune 1870-71, To Lose a Battle: France 1940

7. Winston S. Churchill

   Author of Their Finest Hour, Triumph and Tragedy, Closing the Ring

8. Thomas Pakenham

   Author of The Scramble for Africa, The Boer War

9. Lyn Macdonald

   Author of 1915: The Death of Innocence, Somme, 1914

10. Byron E. Farwell

    Author of Queen Victoria's Little Wars, The Great War in Africa, 1914-1918, Mr. Kipling's Army

11. Gerald Durrell

    Author of The Bafut Beagles, The Drunken Forest, Three Singles to Adventure

12. Samuel Eliot Morison

    Author of The European discovery of America, John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography, Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943

13. John Julius Norwich

    Author of A History of Venice, Byzantium: The Decline and Fall, Byzantium (Early Centuries, Apogee, Decline and Fall)

14. Patrick Leigh Fermor

    Author of A Time of Gifts: On Foot to Constantinople: From the Hook of Holland to the Middle Danube, Between the Woods and the Water

15. C. V. Wedgwood

    Author of The Thirty Years War, Coffin for King Charles: The Trial of Charles I

16. Correlli Barnett

    Author of The Swordbearers: Studies in Supreme Command in the First World War, The Desert Generals

17. Cornelius Ryan

    Author of A Bridge Too Far, Last Battle: The Classic History of the Battle for Berlin

18. Leon Wolff

    Author of In Flanders Fields

19. Garrett Mattingly

    Author of The Armada

20. Wilfred Thesiger

    Author of Arabian Sands, The Marsh Arabs