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Hugh Bicheno was born in Cienfuegos, Cuba, of British parents and has lived as long in the Americas as he has in England. Went to school in Cuba, England, Chile and Scotland, read history at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and got a first. After becoming disillusioned with academia he joined SIS, then went freelance as a security consultant and kidnap negotiator. He is a US citizen, bilingual in Spanish, can read and speak Italian and French adequately, and can read Portuguese.
Since moving to England in 1999 he has devoted himself to researching and writing about the politics and the cutting edge of conflict, and has collaborated with his old friend Richard Holmes on several titles. He was Associate Editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History (2000) and published Gettysburg (2002), Midway (2002), Crescent and Cross: the Battle of Lepanto 1571 (2003), Rebels & Redcoats: the American Revolutionary War (2003), Razor’s Edge: the Unofficial History of the Falklands War (2006) and Vendetta: High Art and Low Cunning at the Birth of the Renaissance (2008). He does his own picture research and is a skilled cartographer.
He has been interviewed many times on radio and television and has been a guest speaker on a cruise ship in the Black Sea and at several fund-raising events for the soldiers that the British government sends to dishonestly entered wars ill-equipped and underpaid, and then treats like offal when they are no longer useful.
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