Sir Reginald Hibbert, British officer, historian, passed away in the United Kingdom . Born in Hertfordshire, in 1922. Educated at Queen Elizabeth College, Barnet, and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he completed his first degree in history (1946). During World War II he served as a British liaison officer in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) Stables Mission in Northern Albania, where he parachuted in December 1943 to assist and maintain contact with Albanian resistance fighters. After the war, he began his diplomatic career, which he ended as the United Kingdom’s ambassador to France (1979–1982). His book “Albania’s National Liberation Struggle: The Bitter Victory“, London 1991 is seen as an objective history of that period, written by a man who saw the events from the inside. (In the photo: Reginald Hibert)
Text: Albanian encyclopedic dictionary – Vol. 2 , Academy of Sciences of Albania, “Kristalina-KH”, Tirana, 2008, page 911.
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