ARNHEM THE AUTHOR 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, Desctibed by Professor J.-H. Plumb as‘a writer of the highest ability’, he is, in the words of The Times Educational Supplement, ‘perhaps the most gifted popular historian we have’. His much acclaimed books include the following, The Destruction af Lord Raglan (which won the Heinemann Award for Literature in 1962); Benito Mussolini; The Court at Windsor; The Making of Charles Dickens; London: The Biography of a City; The Dragon Wakes: China and the West 1793-1911; George IV; The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici; Edward VII: A Portrait; The Great Mutiny: India 1857; The French Revolution; The Personal History of Samuel Johnson; Garibaldi and His Enemies; Rome: The Biography of a City; The Virgin Queen: The Personal History of Elizabeth I; and his most recent publications, Nelson: A Personal History and Wellington: A Personal History. He has also edited The Recollecions of Rifleman Haris; A Soldier of the Seventy-First and The Wheatley Diary. In the Great Battles series he is the author of Agincourt and Conenna, 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,Other titles in the GREAT BATTLES series Hastings by Peter Poyntz Wright Agincourt by Christopher Hibbert Edgehill: 1642 by Peter Young Marston Moor: 1644 by Peter Young ‘The Boyne and Aughrim: The War of the Two Kings by John Kinross Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch by David Howarth Conmnna by Christopher Hibbert Wellington's Peninsular Victories by Michael Glover Waterloo: A Near Run Thing by David Howarth Other Military Books published by the Windrush Press ‘The Recollections of Rifleman Hanis Edited and Introduced by Christopher Hibbert ‘The Letters of Private Wheeler Edited and with a Foreword by B.H. Liddell Hart ‘The Diaries of a Napoleonic Foot Soldier Edited and Introduced by Mark Raeff A Soldier of the 7st Edited and Introduced by Christopher Hibbert The Wheatley Diary Edited and Introduced by Christopher HibbertARNHEM CHRISTOPHER HIBBERT ( ~ THE WINDRUSH PRESS - GLOUCESTERSHIRE