The French Revolution
$31.46
- Paperback
384 pages
- Release Date
28 January 1982
Summary
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…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780140049459 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0140049452 |
| Author: | Christopher Hibbert |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 384 |
| Edition: | 1st |
| Release Date: | 28 January 1982 |
| Weight: | 269g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 25mm |
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About The Author
Christopher Hibbert
Christopher Hibbert was born in Leicestershire in 1924 and educated at Radley and Oriel College, Oxford. He served as an infantry officer during the war, was twice wounded and was awarded the Military Cross in 1945. Described by Professor J. H. Plumb as ‘a writer of the highest ability’ and in the New Statesman as ‘a pearl of biographers’, he is, in the words of The Times Educational Supplement, ‘perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have’.
Christopher Hibbert is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is married with two sons and a daughter and lives in Henley-on-Thames.
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