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Gregor Dallas is a historian of war, peace, cities and peoples. He knows something about frontiers and cultural differences. He has spent one third of his life in Britain, a third in the United States and a third in France. He attended Sherborne School in Dorset, received an AB (economics and history) at the University of California at Berkeley, and an AM and PhD (European Economic History) at Rutgers University, New Jersey, where he taught. He also taught at Smith College, Massachusetts (one of America's 'Seven Sisters'). He is an acclaimed historian of the ending of wars. He writes about both the famous and the unknown, and likes to put historical events in their physical place. In 2006 he set up a French section of the Society of Authors (SOAF) and, pursuing his lifelong interest in local history, he established a 'Local History Workshop' in the French royal town of Dreux. He is also chairman of the Constitution Study Group of the British Conservatives in Paris (BCiP). He is the author of At the Heart of a Tiger: Clemenceau and His World (Macmillan, 1993), and the 'War-and-Peace Trilogy': 1815, 1918 and 1945 (John Murrays & Pimlico, 1997-2005). He has recently published Metrostop Paris. His next major work will be a study of the post-war collapse of European empires as related to the course of the Cold War.
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'My discovery of Andrew Lownie is the happy end of a sad story, the break-up of the literary agency, PFD. I had received the recommendation from both my publisher and my former agent, who described Andrew as the “King of History and of Biography”. What I did not know at the time was Andrew's fancy for hard work. When, on a Wednesday, I knocked at his door at Great Smith Street, he not only opened the door himself, he made the tea and brought in his cakes on tray: I immediately knew I was dealing with somebody serious. We signed a contract on Thursday and on Friday the emails began to pour in. We haven't ceased communicating since. This man is a bundle full of ideas and energy.'
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