Hugh Bicheno (19 January 1948 – 11 November 2023[1]) was a political risk analyst and an historian of conflict.
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, serving in Buenos Aires during the 'Dirty War.
Reviewing Razor's Edge, the late and eminent military historian Sir John Keegan commented that "It may seem impossible for anything original to appear about the Falklands War, so much has been written about it, but Hugh Bicheno's book is that thing .
"[2] Sir Max Hastings, who took part in the campaign as a journalist and co-wrote the first and still highly regarded account of the war, commented: "Bicheno understands how battles are fought, and explains those of the Falklands better than any other writer has done .