Hugh Bicheno


Hugh Bicheno is a political risk analyst and an historian of conflict. He is best known for his interpretations of the Falklands War in his best-selling Razor's Edge: The Unofficial History of the Falklands War, and of the American Revolution in Rebels and Redcoats: The American Revolutionary War.

Biography

Bicheno was born in Cuba to British parents in 1948. He was educated in Cuba, Chile and Scotland before winning a scholarship to Emmanuel College, Cambridge, where he won a first class honours degree in History. He was first an academic and then an officer in the British Secret Intelligence Service. Later he became a security consultant in Italy and across Latin America, specializing in kidnap negotiations. He lived in the United States for several years and became a naturalised citizen, but now lives in England. He is bilingual English-Spanish, speaks and reads Italian and French.

Writing

Reviewing Razor's Edge, the late Sir John Keegan noted that "Bicheno has much to say, highly entertainingly" about the Falklands War, and describes the book as "gripping and discomfiting."
Bicheno collaborated with his friend the late Richard Holmes on Battlefields of the Second World War, In the Footsteps of Churchill and The World at War. Holmes wrote the prefaces to Rebels and Redcoats and Razor's Edge and also made a television series adaptation of Rebels and Redcoats.

Works