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  • - Hero of Italian Unification
    von Christopher Hibbert
    33,00 €

    Giuseppe Garibaldi was praised for his military genius, his courage, and his charisma. In this landmark biography, Christopher Hibbert reveals how this iconic figure and architect of Italian unification earned the adulation of not only his fellow Italians, but people across the globe.

  • von Christopher Hibbert
    31,00 €

    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.

  • von Christopher Hibbert
    28,00 €

    With passion and wit, Christopher Hibbert details the crucial years that formed Dickens the writer and Dickens the man. He explains how Dickens transferred the smallest fragments of his experience to his fiction, and how he interpreted his youth for both himself and his readers, throwing a clear light on the creative process and sources of literary imagination. An illuminating look at a complex and baffling person, fans of literary biography will relish Hibbert's acclaimed style as he delivers the fascinating tale of Dickens' development.

  • von Christopher Hibbert
    33,00 €

  • - The Rise and Fall of Il Duce
    von Christopher Hibbert
    31,00 €

    With his signature insight and compelling style, Christopher Hibbert explains the extraordinary complexities and contradictions that characterized Benito Mussolini. Hibbert traces his unstoppable rise to power, examines his legacy and reveals why he continues to be both revered and reviled by the Italian people.

  • - A Life of Religion, War and Treason
    von Christopher Hibbert
    26,00 €

  • - The Last Victorian King
    von Christopher Hibbert
    28,00 €

    To his mother, Queen Victoria, he was "poor Bertie," to his wife he was "my dear little man," while the President of France called him "a great English king," and the German Kaiser condemned him as "an old peacock." King Edward VII was all these things and more, as Hibbert reveals in this captivating biography. Shedding new light on the scandals that peppered his life, Hibbert reveals Edward's dismal early years under Victoria's iron rule, his terror of boredom that led to a lively social life at home and abroad, and his eventual ascent to the throne at age 59. Edward is best remembered as the last Victorian king, the monarch who installed the office of Prime Minister.

  • - The Man Who Won the French and Indian War
    von Christopher Hibbert
    19,00 €

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

  • - Europeans on the Dark Continent, 1769-1889
    von Christopher Hibbert
    24,00 €

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

  • - The American Revolution through British Eyes
    von Christopher Hibbert
    28,00 €

    In this fresh look at the American Revolution, Hibbert portrays the realities of a war that thousands of George Washington's fellow countrymen condemned and one he came close to losing. This work presents a vivid picture of the "cruel, accursed" war that changed the world forever.

  • - A Social History of Crime and Punishment
    von Christopher Hibbert
    69,00 €

    Hibbert tries to show by reference to history of punishments, to the reactions of those who suffered them or have been threatened by them, and to the endeavors of those who have concerned themselves with the criminal and the prevention of crime, that cruelty punishment has an inevitable tendency to produce cruelty in people.

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