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Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces, the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating glimpse ...
A Tank Commander's Story
Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe ...
How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth centu...
As one of the most admired political leaders of the twentieth century, Winston Churchill holds iconic status in popular memory. But in this incisive n...
Captions and descriptions supplement photographs from the archives of London's Imperial War Museum, showing various aspects of the war and its impact....
The Pursuit
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 ...
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 Coleridg...
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’....
Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women w...
How We Took to the Air
FALLING UPWARDS is a vivid group biography and adventure that tells how men and women first felt as they rose towards the clouds into a new dimension ...
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stag...
A Novel of Police Terror
This wide-ranging and exhaustively researched book is an attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its ...
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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,...
A Visual History of Arms and Armour
The ultimate record of arms and armour through the ages – in a new compact edition An epic 4,000-year illustrated story of weaponry. From stone axes...
More than any other town in New Hampshire, Derry has changed dramatically over the last thirty years. Gone are the fields, the forests, and the fine o...
Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
From the award-winning author of The Age of Wonder and Falling Upwards, here is a luminous meditation on the art of biography that fuses the author’...
In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier....
In The Transcendence of the World, Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our exper...
This adventure centers around two leading characters: Rusty a 40-year-old opal miner, and Kate, a 60-year-old, tough-as-nails woman who raises sheep a...
Darker Reflections, 1804-1834
Richard Holmes's Coleridge: Early Visions won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. Coleridge: Darker Reflections, the long-awaited second volume...
From the impact of the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, to the problems of military uncertainty and the role of women in combat, this colle...
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets....
Commerce and Culture in Nineteenth Century Persia
Sketches on the Shores of the Caspian is the product of the author's journey through the Caspian region as part of an expedition headed by his cousin ...
Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating biography of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and B...
Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
Richard Holmes retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the Parisian riots of the 1960s, he dives back in t...
The Iron Duke
Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain s greatest-ever soldier, the man who pose...
The Definitive Visual History From Blitzkrieg to the Atom Bomb
This defining period in world history is explored and explained as never before. World War II is captured in hundreds of compelling images, presenting...
Selected Poems
Coleridge is a great and daring poet. His presence is felt echoing through the English language by anyone who has heard the magical names of 'Kubla Kh...
Decisive Conflicts in History
This fascinating book tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history, from Agincourt, Lepanto, and Trafal...
The British Soldier in India, 1750-1914
"[B]egins with India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth cent...
Napoleon was the colossus of his age. He rose to become one of Revolutionary France's most successful generals, before being crowned emperor in Decemb...
Designed for the Use of Students: with an Introduction on the Study of that Branch of Law
It was along the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the North Sea to the Swiss border, that most of nine million soldiers from the United ...