To Thomas Carlyle he was 'not worth his weight in cold bacon,' but, to Queen Victoria, Benjamin D...

This colorful history of a powerful family brings the world they lived in--the glittering Rome of...

With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the write...

With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary c...

To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was 'poor Bertie,' to his wife he was 'my dear little man,' whi...

Hailed by Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana, as 'one of England's greatest living historical wr...

Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffe...

Christopher Hibbert draws on every known contemporary source to provide a minutely detailed look ...

When Charles Stuart was a young child, it seemed unlikely that he would survive, let alone becom...

Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. Known as t...

Africa Explored collects the amazing tales of Europeans in Africa before the wave of colonialism.

The story of this war has usually been told in terms of a conflict between blundering British gen...

The last year in the life of Bristish general James Wolfe.

A beautiful, quirky, illustrated edition of Phaidon's compelling bestseller, celebrating the book...

A guide to the use of the avian embryo in studies of vertebrate development. It includes approach...

Christopher Hibbert's acclaimed biography of Queen Victoria is as impressive and authoritative as...

At its height Renaissance Florence was a centre of wealth, power and influence. A republican city...

First time in paperback: An intimate biography of a larger-than-life persona-and a radical reasse...

It was a dynasty with more wealth, passion, and power than the houses of Windsor, Kennedy, and Ro...

Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers to perhaps the greatest mona...

Christopher Hibbert was born in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. He served ...

Warlords, popes and poisoners; the Borgias are an infamous lot, and are soon to be the subject of...

La Breve Historia del rey Arturo analiza uno de los romances medievales más importantes de la Eur...

Told in Christopher Hibbert's inimitable, highly readable style, this is the story of 'The Iron D...

The most celebrated English biography is a group portrait in which extraordinary man paints the p...

Works from Les Misirables by Victor Hugo to Citizens by Simon Schama have been inspired by the Fr...

Waterloo was the climax of almost twenty years of war in Europe. It dramatically ended Napoleon's...

'By far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet written' - Economist A beautifully w...

In this colorful, absorbing tale of Nelson's life on and off the high seas, Hibbert illuminates t...

Charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis cour...

This book tells the true story of the Battle of Arnhem which was fought in September 1944. Nine t...

Christopher Hibbert was an English author, historian and biographer. He has been called 'probably...