Hugh Bicheno is a living British

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-American

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 military historian most famous for his revisionist interpretations of the American Revolution

American Revolution

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 in his acclaimed publication Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War and of the Falklands War

Falklands War

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 in his best-selling Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War.

Bicheno was born in Cuba

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 to British parents in 1948. He is a naturalised

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 citizen of the United States, although he now lives in Cambridge

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, England, where he was educated. Before becoming an author he was an academic and served as an intelligence officer

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 and security consultant in Italy and across Latin America

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, specializing in kidnap negotiations.

Bicheno has collaborated with Richard Holmes

Richard Holmes (military historian)

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 on a number of projects. Holmes wrote the prefaces to Rebels and Redcoats and Razor's Edge and also made a television series adaptation of Rebels and Redcoats.

See Hugh Bicheno's website at http://hughbicheno.co.uk

Works

• 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
• Crescent and Cross: The Battle of Lepanto 1571 (Phoenix 2004) ISBN 1-84212-753-5
• La batalla de Lepanto (Ariel 2005) ISBN 84-344-6762-3
• Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2006) ISBN 0-297-84633-7
• Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War (Phoenix 2007) ISBN 978-0-7538-2162-2
• Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2008) ISBN 978-0-297-84634-5