A Bundle from Britain

New York: St. Martin's Press, 1994. First U.S. Edition. First Printing. Hardcover. Good/Fair. 25 cm, xvii, [1], 333, [1] pages. Illustrations. DJ soiled and edges worn: small tears. Introduction by Louis Auchincloss. Sir Alistair Allan Horne CBE FRSL (9 November 1925 - 25 May 2017) was a British journalist, biographer and historian of Europe, especially of 19th and 20th century France. He wrote more than 20 books on travel, history, and biography. Horne worked as a foreign correspondent for The Daily Telegraph from 1952 to 1955. He was the official biographer of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, a work originally published (in two volumes) in 1988. Horne was an Honorary Fellow of St. Antony's College, Oxford. The Price of Glory: Verdun 1916 received the Hawthornden Prize in 1963. Horne's 1977 book A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 received the Wolfson Prize in 1978. Following the 2003 American invasion of Iraq, A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962 came to be of much interest to American military officers, having been recommended to U.S. President George W. Bush by Kissinger. In October 2006 the book was republished . Story of children evacuated during World War II from Europe to America. The Children's Overseas Reception Board approved 24,000 children for evacuation overseas. Between June and September 1940, 1,532 children were evacuated to Canada, mainly through the Pier 21 immigration terminal; 577 to Australia; 353 to South Africa and 202 to New Zealand. The scheme was canceled after City of Benares was torpedoed on 17 September 1940, killing 77 of the 90 CORB children aboard. However, in 1940 and 1941 about 14,000 children were evacuated privately to overseas relatives or foster families, including 6,000 to Canada and 5,000 to the United States.