Hugh Bicheno (19 January 1948 – 11 November 2023^[1]) was apolitical risk analyst and anhistorian of conflict. He was best known for his interpretations of theFalklands War inRazor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War and of theAmerican Revolution inRebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War.

Hugh Bicheno was born inCuba to British parents in 1948. He was educated in Cuba,Chile andScotland before winning a scholarship toEmmanuel College, Cambridge, where he won a first class honours degree in history. He was first an academic and then worked as anMI6 officer, being stationed inBuenos Aires during theDirty War.^{[citation needed]}

Later he became a security consultant specialising in kidnap negotiations and was the adviser in 27 cases. He lived inItaly and then inGuatemala before moving to theUnited States for several years and becoming anaturalised citizen. He returned toEngland to pursue his life-long ambition to write books about conflict.^{[citation needed]} He was bilingual English-Spanish, spoke and read Italian and French.

ReviewingRazor's Edge, the late and eminent military historian Sir John Keegan commented that "It may seem impossible for anything original to appear about the Falklands War, so much has been written about it, but Hugh Bicheno's book is that thing . . . readers will find this book gripping and discomfiting."^[2]

Sir Max Hastings, who took part in the campaign as a journalist and co-wrote the first and still highly regarded account of the war, commented: "Bicheno understands how battles are fought, and explains those of the Falklands better than any other writer has done . . . he knows how soldiers fight battles and has done us all a service by explaining them so well for a new generation."^{[citation needed]}

Bicheno collaborated with his friend the lateRichard Holmes onBattlefields of the Second World War,In the Footsteps of Churchill andThe World at War. Holmes wrote the prefaces toRebels and Redcoats andRazor's Edge and also made atelevision series adaptation ofRebels and Redcoats.^{[citation needed]}

• Gettysburg (Cassell, 2001)ISBN 0-304-35698-0
• Midway (Cassell, 2001)ISBN 0-304-35715-4
• Rebels & Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War (HarperCollins 2003)ISBN 0-00-715625-1
• Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto, 1571 (Cassell, 2003)ISBN 0-304-36319-7
• Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006)ISBN 0-297-84633-7
• Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008)ISBN 978-0-297-84634-5
• Elizabeth's Sea Dogs: How the English Became the Scourge of the Seas (Conway, 2012)ISBN 978-1-844-86174-3
• Battle Royal: the Wars of Lancaster and York 1440-1462 (Head of Zeus, 2015)ISBN 978-1-781-85965-0
• Blood Royal: the Wars of Lancaster and York 1462-1485 (Head of Zeus, 2016)ISBN 978-1-781-85968-1
• Crescent and Cross (Endeavour Kindle Edition, 2019)‹See Tfd›ASIN B07S8BW72X
• The Wars of the Roses (Head of Zeus, 2019)ISBN 978-1-789-54472-5

• English historians
• 1948 births
• 2023 deaths
• British military historians
• Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge
• British emigrants to the United States
• British expatriates in Cuba
• 21st-century American historians
• 21st-century American male writers
• Naturalized citizens of the United States
• American male non-fiction writers

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