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Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the French Revolution. Now available for the first time in ...
A Personal History
Horatio Nelson was a national hero who secured a century of maritime supremacy for his country and became the focus of British identity and aspiration...
Rather than reaffirm George III's reputation as Mad King George, Hibbert portrays him as not only a competent ruler during most of his reign, but also...
Its Rise and Fall
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 contr...
This is a portrait of Victoria as the formidable, demanding, capricious queen of popular imagination, which also shows her as often shy and vulnerable...
This book provides a thorough introduction to the War of American Independence. Told with great authority and clarity the book describes and details t...
Christopher Hibbert’s acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as the great woman herself....
Elizabeth I, Genius Of The Golden Age
An intimate portrait of history's most fascinating monarch A genius, a beauty, a leader, and a manipulator. Elizabeth I has fascinated and enthralled ...
At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of enormous wealth, power and influence. A republican city-state funded by trade and banking, its ofte...
‘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 Charl...
India 1857
Presents the history of the Indian uprising of 1857....
Agincourt is a concise history of one of the most extraordinary battles in history....
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 th...
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 f...
The name Borgia is synonymous with the corruption, nepotism, and greed that were rife in Renaissance Italy. The powerful, voracious Rodrigo Borgia, be...
"Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield, KG, PC, FRS, (21 December 1804 ? 19 April 1881) was a British Prime Minister, parliamentarian, Conservat...
His Wives and Women
This fresh account of the private life of Napoleon provides an authoritative up-to-date account of the women in Napoleon's life at all stages of his d...
The Rise and Fall of Il Duce
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As a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity....
‘There is no one-volume book in print that carries so much valuable information on London and its history’ Illustrated London News The London Ency...
The War for America, 1770-1781
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The Biography of a City
What was it about George IV that made private friends, as well as political adversaries, so quick to see the weaknesses of the man and to ignore his q...
Disraeli is one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century. This masterly biography, written by an outstanding popular historian, concentrates on...
The American Revolution Through British Eyes
A British history of the American Revolution chronicles the war as an effort marked by ragtag armies, accidental victories, sluggish policymakers, and...
The Grand tour is a lively and entertaining account of the origins and history of the tour, the experiences of those rich, adventurous young traveller...
With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Ben...
China and the West, 1793-1911
Traces milestones in history from the plays of Shakespeare in 1601 to the westernization of Russia under Peter the Great in 1698....
Merchants and crusaders - Travellers and imperialists - Empire in danger - Venice of Martin Sanudo - Defeats and triumphs - Artists and architects - A...
In this masterly biography Hibbert reveals the personal life of one of the most fascinating men of the 19th century and England's most eccentric prime...
The Clash of Arms and Personalities in the Making of Italy
A Domestic History
One of the most popular military books of all time receives a well-deserved new edition for readers young and old. The hero is an ordinary shepherd, a...
This work presents a descripion of Charles Dickens's experiences between the age of four and twenty-four - the years which the author acknowledged as ...
This social as well as a military history recreates the scenes of civil war in England, between 1642 and 1649....
Europeans in the Dark Continent, 1769-1889
Many outstanding men James Bruce, Richard Francis Burton, David Livingstone, Henry Morton Stanley, and others won lasting fame from their African jour...