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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
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
Category: History
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
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris 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. This is a graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign that effectivel ...Show more
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes; Imperial War Museum
Category: Military
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
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes, Richard Holmes
Category: Military
80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with the Imperial War MuseumRelive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Germany.Written by esteemed military histor ...Show more
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage by Richard Holmes
Category: Philosophy
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright and convicte ...Show more
Dusty Warriors : Modern soldiers at war by Richard Holmes
Category: Military
Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier. In this remarkable book, Richard Holmes draws on the testimonies of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment to capture in vivid detail the average so ...Show more
Falling Upwards by Richard Holmes
Category: Biography
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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
Category: Non-Fiction
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
Category: History
'Nominally a history of the hot air balloon, 'Falling Upwards' is really a history of hope and fantasy - and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesm ...Show more
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes Richard
Category: Fiction
Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume 'Sidetracks'. In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called Footsteps and the writing of biography was changed forever. A daring mix of travel, biographical sleuthing and personal memoir, it ...Show more