{"id":7671,"date":"2026-02-21T01:08:30","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:08:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/1970\/01\/01\/reginald-hibbert\/---6c3f559c-7422-421b-b4a8-f85dcb58dd56"},"modified":"2026-02-21T01:08:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T01:08:30","slug":"reginald-hibbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.albanianheritage.al\/en\/1970\/01\/01\/reginald-hibbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Reginald Hibbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Was born in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom,<i> <\/i>Sir Reginald Hibbert, british officer, historian. He was educated at &#8220;Queen Elizabeth&#8221; College, Barnet and at Worcester College, Oxford, where he completed the first degree of postgraduate studies 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. 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His book &#8221; <i>Albania&#8217;s National Liberation Struggle: The Bitter Victory&#8221;, <\/i>London 1991 is seen as an objective history of that period, written by a man who witnessed the events up close. <i>He passed away in 2002.<\/i>&nbsp;<i>(In the photo: Reginald Hibbert)<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Text:<\/strong> <i>Albanian encyclopedic dictionary &#8211; Vol. 2,<\/i> Academy of Sciences of Albania, &#8220;Kristalina-KH&#8221;, Tirana, 2008, page 911.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Photo: <\/strong>\u00a9 https:\/\/tiranaweb.al\/tag\/sir-reginald-hibbert\/<\/p>\n<p><strong>Graphic processing: <\/strong>AHCF<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Reginald Hibbert, british officer, historian was born in Hertfordshire, United Kingdom,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7671","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ditelindje"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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