Christopher Hibbert wrote Redcoats and Rebels, in which he discuss what happened in the American Revolutionary War based on the point of view of the British. Christopher Hibbert was born in Enderby vicarage, Leicestershire. He was the middle child out of three children. Hibbert attended Radley School in Oxfordshire and then he went to Oriel College, Oxford. He met Susan Piggford in Oriel College and married her in 1948. Knowing they will be short in money, Hibbert’s wife still supported his dream in writing. His writing was all about history. Including, Battle of Agincourt, The English: a Social History 1066-1945, Biography of Benjamin Disraeli. Hibbert died in Henley-on-Thames, December 21, 2008 at the age of 84. In Redcoats and Rebels it
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For example, he said “To encourage men to enlist in this new regiment, he prepared a notice to be posted in all the towns and villages around Northampton where its headquarters were to be: You will be mounted on the finest horses in the world, with the finest clothing and the finest accouterments… ” (Hibbert, 47). Another strength that the book had was that Hibbert wrote extra details in each event to help me understand the book better, and to help me visualize the event in my mind better. A weakness that the book had was that when the author introduced a person, he added extra information about the person that I felt was not really important. And that extra information usually took about a paragraph or two to describe that person. For example, Hibbert wrote, “In Williamsburg, Virginia, a young lawyer, Thomas Jefferson, came into prominence. The son of a surveyor who had left him comfortably off, Jefferson, already something of a classical scholar, had entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in 1760…” (26). Another weakness in the book was the language. Because a British author wrote the book, the way they write is different to what we write in America. Some sentences are difficult to understand and at times there were words that I could not understand because Britain spelled it in a different way than we
For example, he said “To encourage men to enlist in this new regiment, he prepared a notice to be posted in all the towns and villages around Northampton where its headquarters were to be: You will be mounted on the finest horses in the world, with the finest clothing and the finest accouterments… ” (Hibbert, 47). Another strength that the book had was that Hibbert wrote extra details in each event to help me understand the book better, and to help me visualize the event in my mind better. A weakness that the book had was that when the author introduced a person, he added extra information about the person that I felt was not really important. And that extra information usually took about a paragraph or two to describe that person. For example, Hibbert wrote, “In Williamsburg, Virginia, a young lawyer, Thomas Jefferson, came into prominence. The son of a surveyor who had left him comfortably off, Jefferson, already something of a classical scholar, had entered the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg in 1760…” (26). Another weakness in the book was the language. Because a British author wrote the book, the way they write is different to what we write in America. Some sentences are difficult to understand and at times there were words that I could not understand because Britain spelled it in a different way than we