
Product Description
Author: Christopher Hibbert
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
The Great Mutiny delivers a vividly detailed and engaging narrative of India’s 1857 rebellion, combining rigorous research with eye-witness accounts. Christopher Hibbert captures the uprising’s causes, major confrontations, and complex aftermath in one of the most respected single-volume histories of the era.
- Called “by far the best single-volume description of the mutiny yet” by The Economist :contentReference[oaicite:5]{index=5}
- Features a blend of primary sources, reportage, and narrative history :contentReference[oaicite:6]{index=6}
- Originally published in 1978, reissued in 2002 paperback format


