The Battle of Arnhem

Christopher Hibbert

Fontana UK

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 throne of the United Kingdom. She was to reign as queen -- and later Empress of India -- for almost sixty-four years, presiding over twenty prime ministers and a period of unprecedented social and political change. Her era became synonymous with moral rigidity and colonial expansion, and this absorbing biography of Queen Victoria, the unlikely figurehead of a vast and powerful empire, explores how the young monarch transformed herself into a formidable matriarch and the epitome of an age. Embracing her life and family, her politics and personality, her love for Prince Albert and her relationship with John Brown, Hibbert's touching biography is a persuasive portrait of a remarkable woman.

Queen Victoria: A Personal History

Biographies & Memoirs

Harpercollins Pb

The childhood and youth of the great English writer reveal the effect of those crucial years on his work

The Making of Charles Dickens

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

Harpercollins

Traces the real and the mythical elements in the sixth-century Arthurian legend.

The Search for King Arthur

Harpercollins Juvenile Books

One of five distinctive HORIZON histories that explore specific civilizations through the daily lives of the people who lived at the time. In this volume the age explored is that of Victorian England. It was a time when the British Empire was at its height, when the prosperous Anglo-Saxons basked in the Pax Britannica and thought their progress and stability would go on forever. It was a time that saw the flowering of a way of life against which the twentieth century has been in revolt ever since.

The Horizon book of daily life in Victorian England ([Daily life in five great ages of history])

History

Europe

American Heritage Pub. Co.: book trade distribution by McGraw-Hill

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look at the fascinating writer Samuel Johnson. Using facts and anecdotes, Hibbert delivers intimate glimpses into Johnson's time as a schoolboy, his eccentricities as an undergraduate at Oxford, his struggle as a poor writer in London, and his slow rise to the legendary figure with a court of admirers and a steady stream of visitors. Hibbert combines personal stories with an examination Johnson's writing, offering a compelling and readable account.

The Personal History of Samuel Johnson

Literature & Fiction

Penguin??Books

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 qualities? This biography aims to reveal the clues behind such opinion.

George IV

Gardners Books

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 will also be at once a history and a guide book and will be enhanced by splendid photographs and illustrations and line drawings which will describe all teh buildings and treasures of the city.

Florence : The Biography of a City

Penguin

Christopher Hibbert's Virgin Queen is devious, neurotic, capricious, and brilliant. In this biography, which includes character sketches of her relations and courtiers, he fleshes out Elizabeth's quirks and character, giving a well-rounded view of this famous monarch.

Elizabeth I : A Personal History of the Virgin Queen

For far too long, America's epic struggle for independence from British rule has been shrouded in a haze of legend and invention.  In this stirring and colorful account, Hibbert offers the Revolution from the perspective of the vanquished.  Here the fabled heroes and villains on both sides of the conflict come to life - Washington, Revere, Burgoyne, Cornwallis, and Benedict Arnold - in a remarkably compelling work that truly reveals, for perhaps the first time, not only how the colonists won the war, but why the British lost it.  "Hibbert has an unerring touch in getting at the flesh and blood of events and people...zestful storytelling." (Chicago Tribune)

Redcoats and Rebels: The War for America, 1770-1781 (Penguin Classic Military History)

Americas

Penguin Books, Ltd.

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