![]() He is also the author of a three-volume history of the Byzantine Empire: Byzantium: The Early Centuries, Byzantium: The Apogee and Byzantium: The Decline and Fall. ![]() ![]() His many and varied publications include two books on the medieval Norman Kingdom in Sicily, The Normans in the South and The Kingdom in the Sun, which are published by Penguin in one volume entitled The Normans in Sicily two travel books, Mount Athos (with Reresby Sitwell) and Sahara The Architecture of Southern England Glyndebourne two anthologies of poetry and prose, Christmas Crackers and More Christmas Crackers and A History of Venice, originally published in two volumes. In 1964 he resigned from the service in order to write. In 1952 he joined the Foreign Service, where he remained for twelve years, serving at the embassies in Belgrade and Beirut and with the British Delegation to the Disarmament Conference at Geneva. He was educated at Upper Canada College, Toronto, at Eton, at the University of Strasbourg and, after a spell of National Service in the Navy, at New College, Oxford, where he took a degree in French and Russian. ![]()
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