![]() His regimental sergeant major caught sight of the 18-year-old Hibbert, who looked even younger than his years: "What have we got here? Christopher fucking Robin?" The name Christopher stuck. ![]() He joined the London Irish Rifles in 1943, where, on his first day in uniform, he acquired his new name. ![]() He went to Radley school in Oxfordshire and later Oriel College, Oxford, but reading history was interrupted when he was called up. Hibbert was the second of three children, and christened Arthur Raymond. He was born in Enderby vicarage, Leicestershire, where his father was the vicar - and later canon. He wrote in a careful, measured and meticulous style, not seeking to impose his personality on his prose, preferring to present the facts to the reader, to set his story out before them, rather than to embellish his research with supposition, theory and conjecture. Hibbert, though, was never sensational for sensation's sake. She stopped typing and turned to her husband: "What's pornography, pet? Because I think I'm typing it." One such, a woman who had led a somewhat sheltered life, was dealing with a racy passage in his The French Revolution (1981). Throughout his career, his works, extensively researched, were always written in a spidery longhand, which would later be transcribed by a stenographer. ![]() He wrote Benito Mussolini (1962), Garibaldi and his Enemies (1964), Anzio and the Bid for Rome (1970), The Rise and Fall of the House of Medici (1974), biographies of Rome (1985), Venice (1988) and Florence (1993). ![]()
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