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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHURCHILL by HOLMES RICHARD
Category: Biography
Richard Holmes's insightful new biography of one of Britain's greatest leaders is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career. Much has been written about Churchill's role as British prime minister during the crisis years of the Second World War, but in this book Holmes uses new m ...Show more
IWM D-Day by Richard Holmes
Category: Military
D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and helped seal the fate of the Third Reich. "D-Day: The Files" is a unique multimedia archive providing a full account of the planning and execution of Operation ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
Category: Australiana | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Selected Poetry: Coleridge by Samuel Taylor Coleridge; Richard Holmes (Introduction by, Notes by)
Category: Gift | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
With this collection, renowned Colridge biographer Richard Holmes casts new light on the poets sensibilities and accomplishments. Holmes divides the poems into eight categories of theme and genre, dispelling the myth of Coleridge as "the metaphysical dreamer" and rediscovering him as a Romantic autobiog ...Show more
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
Category: Philosophy
A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years. Shelley, the most neglected of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in ...Show more
Soldiers Army Lives & Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Holmes Richard
Category: Military
The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: Biography
DoP 2008 UK The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to ...Show more
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: Reference
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th century in this ground-breaking new biography . 'The Age of Wonde ...Show more
The Age of WonderHow the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
Category: Science
The Age of Wonderis a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science. When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by t ...Show more
The Compact Guide: the Napoleonic Wars by Richard Holmes
Category: Education | Series: The\Compact Guide Ser.
Written by one of Britain's best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new condensed and accessible edition This is popular history at its most engrossing, providing a vivid introduction to Napoleon's astonishing career and hi ...Show more
The First World War in Photographs by Richard Holmes
Category: Military
It was the war to end all wars, a conflict without precedent in which millions died and millions more were injured. It was also one of the first wars from which we have a comprehensive photographic record. This book presents the conflict in all its appalling and intensely moving detail - covering all th ...Show more