Richard Collier (historian)

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Richard Collier (historian) - Wikipedia

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Richard Collier (1924–1996) was an English journalist, military historian and novelist.

Life

Born in Croydon, Collier joined the RAF in 1942 and was War Associate Editor of Lord Mountbatten's magazine Phoenix: An Allied Magazine for All Allied Forces in South East Asia. After the war, he joined the Daily Mail as a feature writer.^[1]

For his 1971 biography of Mussolini, Collier employed three administrative assistants to coordinate the work of 30 research assistants and eight translators. The book's New York Times reviewer found the book uncritical but easy to read and entertaining.^[2]

Collier's 1974 The Plague of the Spanish Lady was the first book-length treatment of the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918–19.^[3] For the book Collier advertised around the world, asking for memories and eye-witness accounts. The correspondence which he collected is now held by the Imperial War Museum.^[4]

Works

Novels

Beautiful Friend, 1947

Non-fiction

Ten Thousand Eyes: The Amazing Story of the Spy Network That Cracked Hitler's Atlantic Wall Before D-Day, 1958
The City that Would Not Die: The Bombing of London, May 10–11, 1941, 1959
A House Called Memory, 1960
The Sands of Dunkirk, 1961
The Great Indian Mutiny: A Dramatic Account of the Sepoy Rebellion, 1963
The General Next to God: The story of William Booth and the Salvation Army, 1965
Eagle Day: The Battle of Britain, August 6-September 15, 1940, 1966
The River that God Forgot: The Story of the Amazon Rubber Boom, 1968
Duce!: The Rise and Fall of Benito Mussolini, 1971
The Plague of the Spanish Lady: The Influenza Pandemic of 1918-1919, 1974
The War in the Desert, 1977
Bridge Across the Sky: The Berlin Blockade and Airlift, 1948-1949, 1978
1940, The Avalanche, 1979
The Road to Pearl Harbor--1941, 1981
The Freedom Road, 1944-1945, 1983
The Rainbow People: A Gaudy World of the Very Rich and Those Who Served Them, 1984
Make-believe: The Magic of International Theatre, 1986
Their Finest Hour: The Battle of Britain Remembered, 1989
The Few: Summer 1940, The Battle of Britain, 1989
The Warcos: The War Correspondents of World War Two, 1989
D-Day, June 6, 1944: The Normandy Landings, 1992
The Past is a Foreign Country: Scenes from a Life, 1996

References

^ Richard Collier, historian and novelist, Curtis Brown.
^ A breezy sketch of the first Fascist dictator, New York Times, November 21, 1971.
^ Ilaria Gorini et al, Spanish flu ended a century ago: references in historiography and art, Medicina Historica, Vol. 3, No. 2 (2019), pp.78-82.
^ Remembering the Spanish Flu, Arts and Humanities Research Council. Accessed 9 January 2020.

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