Лучшие книги Кристофера Хибберта

Королева Виктория. Умная, практичная, хладнокровная повелительница "Британской империи, над которой никогда не заходит солнце", шестьдесят четыре года железной рукой державшая бразды правления. Великий политик. Великий, обожаемый народом монарх, переживший взлеты и падения. И в то же время - любящая, преданная жена, познавшая счастье материнства и горечь утраты близких людей. Символ эпохи, которую так и назвали - викторианской. Какой она была не в легендах, а в действительности?..

Автор книги Кристофер Хибберт пытается существенно расширить рамки читательского представления о Бенито Муссолини, фашистском диктаторе, одном из самых роковых и в то же время драматических персонажей уходящего столетия. Стоящий в ряду зловещих имен европейской и мировой истории, наряду с Гитлером и Сталиным, дуче - так называли Муссолини его верноподданные - видится автору довольно противоречивым и неоднозначным человеком.

Эта книга - история Крымской войны 1854-1855 годов. В ней достоверно и ярко описаны главные события: осада Севастополя, Балаклавская битва, штурм Малахова кургана. В центре повествования - трагическая фигура командующего английской армией лорда Раглана, человека, обладающего несомненными дипломатическими способностями, умного и храброго. Он не был великим полководцем, но был честным человеком и тяжело переживал последствия своих ошибок в ведении войны. Автор цитирует подлинные документы, письма и воспоминания очевидцев.

Книга К.Хибберта - историческая энциклопедия Рима, увлекательный рассказчик и профессиональный гид для тех, кто хочет ощутить дух Вечного Города. Рим, перекресток всех дорог - место "паломничества" писателей и поэтов, художников и музыкантов. Долгое время Рим был центром мира, и теперь, когда слава его потускнела, он раскрывает свои секреты. Рим Нерона и Калигулы, Цезаря и Муссолини, Данте, Боккаччо, Микеланджело и других.

Лорд Нельсон.
Один из самых прославленных адмиралов мировой истории, поразивший современников и восхитивший следующие поколения своей удивительной способностью выигрывать совершенно безнадежные на первый взгляд сражения.
Честолюбивый флотоводец, сделавший, возможно, самую впечатляющую и стремительную карьеру за всю историю Британских военно-морских сил.
Идеальный военачальник, он был далеко не безупречен в личной жизни - его романтическая и скандальная связь с леди Гамильтон стала основой множества книг, спектаклей и кинофильмов.
Что в них правда, а что - вымысел?
Где истина, скрытая среди бесчисленных легенд и мифов, окружающих имя Нельсона?

Читайте об этом в книге знаменитого британского историка Кристофера Хибберта!

Биография города – это история его людей и биография его ""камней"". А Венеция – это еще и удивительный феномен европейской средневековой культуры. Войны и ловкая дипломатия, процветающие ремесла и грандиозное кораблестроение обеспечивали ей статус Королевы Адриатики в течение пяти столетий. В ХV111 в. она приобрела необыкновенную власть над путешествующими европейцами, раз и навсегда пленяя их воображение. Менялись поколения, а ""камни Венеции"", овеянные неукротимым духом былой морской империи, все так же манили писателей и поэтов, художников, ученых, всех паладинов искусства. Так рождалась Венеция Байрона и Шелли, Дж. Рёскина и М.…

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 mercantile families, the most famous of which were the Medici. This enthralling book charts the family’s huge influence on the political, economic and cultural history of Florence. Beginning in the early 1430s with the rise of the dynasty under the near-legendary Cosimo de Medici, it moves through their golden era as patrons of some of the most remarkable artists and architects of the Renaissance, to the era of the Medici Popes and Grand Dukes, Florence’s slide into decay and bankruptcy, and the end, in 1737, of the Medici line.

A genius, a beauty, a leader, and a manipulator, Elizabeth I has fascinated and enthralled her public for centuries. The era that bears her name was the most exciting and dazzling in England's history. Witty, cruel, brave, and cantankerous, Elizabeth fascinated and exasperated her intimates, and when she died in 1603 at the age of seventy, she was at the height of her public popularity. Christopher Hibbert's masterful biography introduces a new generation of readers, aware of the challenges women face in wielding power, to perhaps history's greatest monarch. He has given readers today a reason to appreciate and marvel at one of the most remarkable women who has ever lived.

Кристофер Хибберт родился в графстве Лестершир в 1924 году, получил образование в оксфордском колледже Редли и Ориель-Колледж. Служил пехотным офицером во время войны, был дважды ранен и награжден Военным Крестом в 1945 году. Являлся членом Королевского общества литературы. Профессор Дж. Х. Плам говорил о нем как о ""писателе высочайшего дарования"". В книге ""Нью Стейтсмен"" его назвали ""жемчужиной среди биографов"", а по словам ""Таймс Эдьюкейшенал Сапплимент"", ""он, вероятно, наиболее одаренный, вызывающий восхищение историк нашего времени"". Самые признанные его книги изданы издательством ""Пенгуин Букс"": ""Трагедия лорда Раглана""…

Book DescriptionAs a soldier and an emperor, Napoleon was ruthless and determined; as a lover, he showed the same single-minded ferocity. Hailed by Amanda Foreman, author of Georgiana , as "one of England's greatest living historical

In this vivid and compelling book, Christopher Hibbert records the daily life of the English people from the days of the Norman Conquest until our own. Based on diaries, letters, memoirs, official reports, the works of modern social historians and the literature of every period, "The English" traces the development of English society over nine hundred years.
The chapters range far and wide over life in casdes, palaces and monasteries, in the homes of rich merchants and in the hovels of peasants, describing the work and play of the inhabitants, their clothes and food and possessions, their servants and animals, their pleasures and suffering, their beliefs and attitudes, their schools, fairs, shops and markets, hospitals and prisons, theatres and churches, farms and factories, taverns and brothels. Every aspect of medieval and modern life is covered in fascinating detail.
We learn about medieval meals and games, poachers and priests, tournaments and pageants; fifteenth-century universities; sixteenth-century plagues and seventeenth-century libraries, music rooms, nurseries and witch-hunts; eighteenth-century parsons, coachmen and doctors; nineteenth-century noblemen, factory girls and cricketers; twentieth-century maidservants, landladies and motorists.

Эта книга посвящена Крымской кампании 1854-1855 годов. В ней достоверно и ярко описаны главные события: осада Севастополя, Балаклавская битва, штурм Малахова кургана. В центре повествования - трагическая фигура командующего британскими войсками лорда Раглана, человека обладающего несомненными дипломатическими способностями, умного и храброго. Он не был великим полководцем, но был честным человеком и тяжело переживал последствия своих ошибок в ведении воины Автор цитирует подлинные документы, письма и воспоминания очевидцев.

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 that shook eighteenth-century Europe to its foundation. With a mixture of lucid storytelling and fascinating detail, he charts the French Revolution from its beginnings at an impromptu meeting on an indoor tennis court at Versailles in 1789, right through to the 'coup d'etat' that brought Napoleon to power ten years later.
In the process he explains the drama and complexities of this epoch-making era in the compelling and accessible manner he has made his trademark.

In March 1854, a British army of 30,000 men sailed for the Crimea to defend the crumbling Turkish empire from Russia. It was led by Lord Raglan, a verteran of Waterloo. The campaign quickly degenerated into a series of military disasters caused by incompetence at the highest level, bitter personal rivalries among the divisional commanders and inadequacies of transport, clothing and military and medical supplies. To enable to the British government to survive, Raglan was made the scapegoat. This text presents the story of the tragic campaign.

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 of England’s greatest living historical writers’.Modern history has produced one single myth on a heroic scale to rival those of Alexander and Caesar – that of Napoleon. The continuing fascination of this astonishingly gifted man is reflected in the number of books published each year on various aspects of the Napoleonic legend: some 250,000 volumes in all since Napoleon’s mysterious death in 1821.What is still needed is now provided by Christopher Hibbert: an authoritative up-to-date account of Napoleon’s private life at all stages of his developing and extraordinary career, based on the fruits of modern research, his character, interests and tastes, his friendships, enmities and love affairs, his relations with the members of his remarkable family, the impressions he made on his contemporaries away from the council chamber and the battlefield, his personal life at war, in exile and as emperor in peacetime, the mystery surrounding his death: in short, the man revealed behind the soldier, statesman and legend.

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, orator, writer and wit, Benjamin Disraeli was – according to Queen Victoria – ‘the kindest Minister’ she had ever had, who ‘reached the top of the greasy pole’ [in his own words] despite considerable antisemitism. He enjoyed many scandalous affairs before marrying a widow twelve years older than himself – an extremely eccentric woman to whom he remained deeply and touchingly devoted for the rest of his life.Disraeli had never intended to be a politician. He had begun his astonishing career by working unenthusiastically in a lawyer’s office; he had tried unsuccessfully to found a newspaper; he had written a novel which lay unproductively in the publisher’s office. A conspicuous dandy, sprightly, attentive and witty, he was attractive to women, enjoying many liaisons until he contracted a venereal disease in a St James’s Street brothel.He married in 1839. ‘Dizzy married me for my money,’ Mary Anne used to say. ‘But, if he had the chance again, he would marry me for love.’ They lived in a large country house, Hughenden Manor, near High Wycombe, which he bought with mostly borrowed money, and soon became one of the most gifted of parliamentarians and as celebrated as any politician in England. As an antidote to his grief at his wife’s death in 1872 he threw himself back into the political life, becoming Prime Minister for the second time in 1874, displacing Gladstone much to the Queen’s delight.

A major biography to mark the centenary of Queen Victoria’s death, by the uncrowned king of historical biographers, Christopher Hibbert.In 1837 Victoria came to the throne at the age of eighteen, a pretty girl not five feet tall, to preside over what was, perhaps, the most momentous period in British history. During the 64 years of her reign she saw thrones fall, empires crumble, new continents explored and mapped, while her own country became the most powerful, richest and most highly developed nation in the world. For generations the stubborn, vital woman who was seen as the epitome of this time has fascinated all who read of her.Christopher Hibbert’s biography deals with all aspects of the Queen’s life, personality and times, her relations with her large and widespread family, her ‘wicked uncles’ and their wives and mistresses, and with the politicians, prime ministers and foreign statesmen and monarchs of her day – from her opinionated grandson, the Kaiser, to the Emperor Napoleon III with whom she fell rather in love. The book describes her married life and her failings as a mother, her love of food and gossip, her strange relationships with her Indian and Scottish servants, and her influence on the manners, morals and outlook of the age to which she gave her name.

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 modern research. Christopher Hibbert is Britain’s leading popular historian.Wellington (1769–1852) achieved fame as a soldier fighting the Mahratta in India. His later brilliant generalship fighting the French in Spain and his defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo earned him a dukedom and the award of Apsley House (No. 1, London) and a large estate in Hampshire.His second career saw him make his mark as a politician with commanding presence. Appointed Commander-in-Chief for life, he became Prime Minister in 1827 and presided over the emancipation of Roman Catholics and the formation of the country’s first police force.Privately, he was unhappily married, and had several mistresses (including two of Napoleon’s) and many intimate friendships with women. The private side of the public man has never been so richly delineated as in this masterly biography.