British writer on history and biography (1926–2022)
Alan Warwick Palmer (28 September 1926 – 25 March 2022) was a British author of popular historical and biographical books. A number of these books were translated into other languages.
The historian Martin Gilbert was a pupil of Palmer's at Highgate, and contributed a foreword to a 2003 reprinting of his book Napoleon in Russia stating: "Alan Palmer is one of my favourite historians. I have read all his thirty plus books, and have learned from them all. His reference works serve as models of clarity and presentation... how lucky we schoolboys were to have a working historian as our teaching historian".[2]