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Alan Palmer

About the Author

Alan Palmer was Head of History at Highgate School, London, and was elected to the Royal Society of Literature in 1980. He is the author of more than three dozen histories and biographies, including The Baltic, Alexander I: Tsar of War and Peace, Metternich: Councillor of Europe, Twilight of the Habsburgs, and Victory 1918.