The Foreign Affairs Reader

7 April 1893 – 24 April 1973

Hamilton Fish Armstrong attended Princeton University, and then went on to work as a journalist at the New Republic. In 1918, he married Helen MacGregor Byrne. During the First World War, he was a military attaché in Serbia. After 1922, he worked at Foreign Affairs, the review of Council on Foreign Relations. In 1928 he became the editor of the magazine, where he stayed until 1972. In 1933 he published his first book, *Hitler's Reich: The First Phase*. In 1945 he married again, and divorced in 1951, the same year he entered his third marriage. He died after a long illness in 1973, at the age of 80.