Автор: Christopher Hibbert

Waterloo was the climax of almost twenty years of war in Europe. It dramatically ended Napoleon’s dream of a lasting empire. Through the skillful use of original source material, noted historian Hibb …

Christopher Hibbert’s acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself.In 1837 an eighteen-year-old girl, raised by a German mother, inherited the t …

Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. This masterly biography, written by an outstanding popular historian, concentrates on his intriguing private life.Superb politician, o …

A masterly biography of Napoleon, concentrating on his private life, by the historian described by Stella Tillyard as ‘a master portraitist of great men’s private lives’ and by Amanda Foreman as ‘one …

This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649.The book is enlivened by character sketches not only of the leading participants (Charles …

A bestseller in hardback, this is a highly-praised and much-needed biography of the first Duke of Wellington, concentrating on the personal life of the victor of Waterloo, and based on the fruits of …

(This ebook does not include illustrations.)This social history records the daily life of the English people from the time of the Norman Conquest to our own.Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, offici …

A “well-written, lucid, and vivid” recounting of the battles, beheadings, and other dramatic events that changed modern history (The Washington Post).   Works from Les Miserable …

It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Rockefeller combined. It shaped all of Europe and controlled politics, scientists, artists, and even pop …

There can be few military victories so complete, or achieved against such heavy odds, as that won by Henry V on 25 October 1415 against Charles VI’s army at Agincourt. In the words of one contemporar …

In this book, first published in Christopher Hibbert, one of Britain’s foremost historians, tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem which was fought in September 1944 on Dutch soil and made famo …

‘Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note, As his corse to the rampart we hurried.’-from ‘The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna’ by Charles Wolfe One of the best remembered poems in the English lan …

This book is as captivating as the city itself. Hibbert’s gift is weaving political, social and art history into an elegantly readable and marvellously lively whole. The author’s book on Florence wil …

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its often bloody political scene was dominated by rich me …

If you want to discover the captivating history of the French Revolution, this is the book for you . . .Concise, convincing and exciting, this is Christopher Hibbert’s brilliant account of the events …

This beautifully written, informative study is a portrait, a history and a superb guide book, capturing fully the seductive beauty and the many layered past of the Eternal City. It covers 3, 000 year …

This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in—the glittering Rome of the Italian Renaissance—to life.   The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, …

‘En esta obra que usted, querido lector, tiene entre las manos el reputado historiador Christopher Hibbert le descubrirá al verdadero Arturo, desprovisto de armadura medieval y de algunas actitudes q …

Had the camp been allowed to award one VC, the recipient of that honour would have been Arthur Lang, and that by universal acclamation… In September1857, an inexperienced young Engineer officer, wa …

Had the camp been allowed to award one VC, the recipient of that honour would have been Arthur Lang, and that by universal acclamation… In September1857, an inexperienced young Engineer officer, wa …

A portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, the Duke of Wellington, and the fateful clash of their armies in 1815 from “a remarkably good writer” (The New York Times). It was the greatest of battle …

The vivid account of how a brilliant plan turned into an epic tragedy – made into the BAFTA award-winning film A BRIDGE TOO FAR’Alive with the detail that evokes the smoking background’ DAILY TELEGRA …

"One of the most satisfying biographies of an English king: it is ample, convincing and well written"-from the acclaimed author of The House of Medici (The Times Literary Supplement).Christ …