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Christopher Hibbert is, in the words of the TES, 'perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have'. His books include THE DESTRUCTION OF LORD RAGLAN (which won the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962); LONDON- THE BIOGRAPHY OF A CITY and THE VIRGIN QUEEN- THE PERSONAL HISTORY OF ELIZABETH I and THE MARLBOROUGHS (Viking 2001). 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.
In June 1857 rebellious Indians besieged the cities of Cawnpore, Delhi and Lucknow, instigating one of the most serious insurrections suffered by any British colonial government. British soldiers were executed after being given promise of safe passage, innocent women and children suffered the same fate on surrender. Only after bitter struggle was the mutiny suppressed by the end of the year and subsequently the administrative powers of the East India company reverted to the safe-keeping of the crown. Hibbert describes these dramatic events in a thoroughly researched and beautifully written book which provides a splendid evocation of British India in the 19th-century. There are vivid and often amusing portraits of the characters who ran the country and moving evocations of the conditions which inspired their subjects to risk all. (Kirkus UK)
