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A Guide to Battles by Richard Holmes
Category: Military | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
This fascinating book tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history, from Agincourt, Lepanto, and Trafalgar, to Gettysburg, Stalingrad, and the Somme. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Se ...Show more
A Short Residence in Sweden - Memoirs of the Author of 'The Rights of Woman' by Mary Wollstonecraft; William Godwin; Richard Holmes (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by); Richard Holmes (Editor, Foreword by)
Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
In these two closely linked works - a travel book and a biography of its author - we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century- A Short Residence in Swedenis the record of Wollstonecraft's last journey in search of happiness, into the rem ...Show more
Acts of War : The behaviour of men in battle by Richard Holmes
Category: Military
The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its entirety - from the humiliation of basic training ...Show more
Battlefield by Richard Holmes
Category: History
Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Gettysburg, Isandlwana, the Somme, Stalingrad -"Battlefield" tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Secon ...Show more
Battlefield : Decisive Conflicts in History by Richard Holmes
Category: History
Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, the Somme, Stalingrad: Battlefield encompasses almost 300 of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. Battlefield summarizes the best of contemporary scholarship on battles and war in an accessible, engaging narrative. Detailed maps ...Show more
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes
Category: History
'This is the room from which I will direct the war,' Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. And he did just that, as the distinguished Churchill biographer Richard Holmes explains in the first history of the Cabinet War Rooms. It was from these cramped, uncongenial confines t ...Show more
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
Category: Non Fiction
For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes. 'This is the room from which I will direct the war', Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turne ...Show more
Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
Category: Biography Memoir
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet ...Show more
Coleridge - Early Visions by Richard Holmes
Category: Biography Memoir
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes's seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain's greatest poets. 'Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our vie ...Show more
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes; Imperial War Museum
Category: History
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and this graphic account explores all the details of its planning and execution, as well as the campaign that effectively destroyed the German forces in France. Enhancing the superb information on key personnel, weapons, and military units are a DVD ...Show more