Education
Palmer was educated at Bancroft"s School, Woodford Green, London, and Oriel College, Oxford.
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Palmer was educated at Bancroft"s School, Woodford Green, London, and Oriel College, Oxford.
He spent 19 years as senior history teacher at Highgate School before becoming a full-time writer and researcher The Kaiser: Warlord of the Second Reich (1978). Bismarck Kemal Atatürk (Makers of the 20th Century) Princes of Wales The Royal House of Greece The Chancelleries of Europe Franz Joseph I Frederick The Great Sam Boyce (Australia) History The Decline and Fall of the Ottoman Empire (1993).
(German) Verfall und Untergang des Osmanischen Reiches (1997). Victory, 1918 Nations and empires Age of optimism Fictional minds The gardeners of Salonika Russia in War and Peace London: Weidenfeld and Nicholson (1972). The Baltic: A New History of the Region and Its People Northern Shores: A History of the Baltic Sea and Its Peoples (2005).
(2006). Napoleon in Russia Napoleon"s Russian Campaign (2003). Banner of Battle: Story of the Crimean War (1987). East End: Four Centuries of London Life (2000).
(2004). The Salient (2007). Reference works.
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