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  | | D-Day From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris 6 June 1944 by Richard Holmes, Imperial War Museum Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 2019 by Andre Deutsch ISBN-13: 978-0-233-00577-5, ISBN: 0-233-00577-3 "In superb images, rare memorabilia, and the words of those who lived it, this is the story of D-Day. 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. In painstaking detail, this graphic account lays out the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign that effectively destroy ..." |
 | | The Age of Wonder(1st Edition) The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science by Sir Richard Holmes Paperback, 576 Pages, Published 2010 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-4000-3187-0, ISBN: 1-4000-3187-7 "Amazon Exclusive: Oliver Sacks on The Age of Wonder Oliver Sacks is the author of Musicophilia, Awakenings,The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, and many other books, for which he has received numerous awards, including the Hawthornden Prize, a Polk Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and lives in New York City, where he is a practicing neurologist. Read his exclusiv ..." |
 | | Falling Upwards Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by Richard Holmes Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2019 by William Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-838026-7, ISBN: 0-00-838026-0 "NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONESA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting history of pioneer ba ..." |
 | | Dr Johnson and Mr Savage(Updated) by Richard Holmes Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2005 by Harper Perennial ISBN-13: 978-0-00-720455-7, ISBN: 0-00-720455-8 "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 convicted murderer who roamed through the brothels and society salons of Augustan England creating a legend of poetic injustice. Strangest of all his ..." |
 | | Redcoat(1st Edition) The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket by Richard Holmes Hardcover, 466 Pages, Published 2002 by W. W. Norton & Company ISBN-13: 978-0-393-05211-4, ISBN: 0-393-05211-7 "A rich, anecdotal history of the British soldier from the American Revolution through the Indian Mutiny.Redcoat is the story of the British soldier—those noncommissioned men whom Kipling called "the backbone of the army"—from roughly 1760 to 1860. Based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them, this book is rich in the history of a fascinating era. Among the highlights are Wolfe's victory and de ..." |
 | | Marlborough(1st Edition) England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes Hardcover, 512 Pages, Published 2008 by Harperpress ISBN-13: 978-0-00-722571-2, ISBN: 0-00-722571-7 "Best-selling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European stage and saviour of the Holy Roman Empire.John Churchill is, by any reasonable analysis, Britain?s greatest ever soldier. He mastered strategy, ..." |
 | | Footsteps Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes Paperback, 296 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-77004-6, ISBN: 0-679-77004-6 "Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France’s Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and ..." |
 | | Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage(Reprint) by Richard Holmes Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 1996 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-0-679-75770-2, ISBN: 0-679-75770-8 "Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage recounts a story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship between Richard Savage - poet, playwright, and convicted murderer - and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. In a book that the Times Literary Supplement has called "a chiaroscuro masterpiece, as gothic as a ghost story, as heroic as a myth, " Richard Holmes brilliantly reco ..." |
 | | Acts of War(1st Edition) Behavior of Men in Battle by Richard Holmes Paperback, 464 Pages, Published 1989 by Free Press ISBN-13: 978-0-02-914851-8, ISBN: 0-02-914851-0 "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 and the intense comradeship of army life, to the terror, isolation and exhaustion of battle. What does it feel like to be in the firin ..." |
 | | Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage(1st Edition) by Richard Holmes Hardcover, 260 Pages, Published 1994 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-0-679-43585-3, ISBN: 0-679-43585-9 "Dr Johnson & Mr Savage recounts a story of a mysterious 18th century friendship between Richard Savage, poet, playwright, and convicted murderer and the young Samuel Johnson, an unknown provincial schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. Richard Holmes brilliantly reconstructs the puzzling emotional intimacy between the naive Johnson and the seductive, contradictory Savage whose days (when not in prison) were sp ..." |
 | | Footsteps(1st Edition) Adventures of a Romantic Biographer (King Penguin) by Richard Holmes Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1987 by Penguin Books ISBN-13: 978-0-14-008860-1, ISBN: 0-14-008860-1 "Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished 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 broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary exp ..." |
 | | The Napoleonic Wars (The Compact Guide) by Richard Holmes Paperback, 144 Pages, Published 2019 by Andre Deutsch ISBN-13: 978-0-233-00594-2, ISBN: 0-233-00594-3 "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 his effect on world history. A charismatic and astute military leader, Napoleon built an empire in a series of astounding campaigns from ..." |
 | | Ground Work Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee, Richard Holmes Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2019 by Vintage ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-346-2, ISBN: 1-78470-346-X "The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing'Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology' ObserverWe are living in the anthropocene - an epoch where everything is being determined by the activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species. How do we make our way through the ruins that we have made? This anthology ..." |
 | | Falling Upwards How We Took to the Air [Idioma Inglés] by Richard Holmes Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2014 by William Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-747651-0, ISBN: 0-00-747651-5 "‘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 2013CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesman ** Daily Telegraph ** New Republic ** TIME Magazine 10 Top Nonfiction Books of 2013 ** The New Republic Best Books of 2013 ** Kirkus B ..." |
 | | Churchill's Bunker(4th Edition) The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain's Victory by Richard Holmes Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2011 by Profile Books Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-84668-231-5, ISBN: 1-84668-231-2 "'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 turned a seemingly inevitable defeat at the hands of the Nazis into a famous victory. Built in 1938 as a temporary refuge in case of air raid attack, this secret bunker became a second home to Churchill - and to large numbers of military personnel and civil servants who ..." |
 | | The Age of Wonder(Reprint) by Richard Holmes, Vv.Aa. Paperback, 380 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Books ISBN-13: 978-0-00-714953-7, ISBN: 0-00-714953-0 "Shortlisted for the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction Shortlisted for the Royal Society Prize for Science Book Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of the 18th century in his ground-breaking new biography 'The Age of Wonder'. 'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes's first major work of biography in over a decade. It has been inspi ..." |
 | | IWM D-Day Experience(Updated) by Richard Holmes, Marguerite Lazell Paperback, 80 Pages, Published 2007 by Carlton Books Ltd Box Set, Import ISBN-13: 978-1-84442-506-8, ISBN: 1-84442-506-1 "D-Day took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men from around the world and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Third Reich. This book is a graphic account of the planning and execution of the invasion and through a wealth of first-hand accounts and memorabilia items the reader can relive this momentous period." |
 | | Dusty Warriors(1st Edition) Modern Soldiers at War by Richard Holmes Hardcover, 316 Pages, Published 2006 by Harper Import ISBN-13: 978-0-00-721284-2, ISBN: 0-00-721284-4 "Rare Book" |
 | | Footsteps(Reprint) Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2004 by Harpercollins Pub Ltd ISBN-13: 978-0-00-654840-9, ISBN: 0-00-654840-7 "Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished 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 broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary ex ..." |
 | | The First World War in Photographs (Imperial War Museum) by Richard Holmes Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 2001 by Sevenoaks Books ISBN-13: 978-1-86200-092-6, ISBN: 1-86200-092-1 |
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