Alan Warwick Palmer (28 September 1926 – 25 March 2022) was a British author of popular historical and biographical books.
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.
[1] His late wife, Veronica Palmer collaborated on several of his books.
The historian Martin Gilbert was a pupil of Palmer's at Highgate, and contributed a foreword to a 2003 reprinting of his book Napoleon in Russia stating: "Alan Palmer is one of my favourite historians.