Book description
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. Christopher Hibbert was born
in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. He served as
an infantry officer during the war and was awarded the Military Cross in
1945. His many highly acclaimed books include the following titles: The
Destruction of Lord Raglan (which won the Heinemann Award for Literature
in 1962), London: The Biography of a City, The Rise and Fall of the
House of Medici, The Great Mutiny: India 1857, The French Revolution,
Garibaldi and His Enemies, Rome: The Biography of a City, Elizabeth I: A
Personal History of the Virgin Queen, Nelson: A Personal History, George
III: A Personal History and The Marlboroughs: John and Sarah Churchill
1650 - 1744. Christopher Hibbert is a fellow of the Royal Society of
Literature and an Hon. D. Litt. of Leicester University. He is married
with two sons and a daughter, and lives in Henley-on-Thames.
