Christopher Guy Thorne (17 May 1934 – 20 April 1992) was a British historian and a Professor of International Relations at the University of Sussex.
[2] In 1986 he delivered the British Academy's Sarah Tryphena Phillips Lecture in American Literature and History.
[3] Thorne achieved some fame for his new approaches to international history, emphasising the importance of transnational research and perspectives.
He was the first non-American to win the Bancroft Prize for American history, awarded in 1979 for his book Allies of a Kind: The United States, Britain and the War Against Japan, 1941–1945.
[4] He was educated at the Royal Grammar School, Guildford, and St. Edmund Hall, Oxford (B.A.