"For 800 years, a proud, vibrant, richly imaginative warrior people swept ruthlessly across Europe. The ancient Greeks called them "Keltoi" and honored them as one of the great barbarian races. Follow their fascinating story from their earliest roots 2,500 years ago through the flowering of their unique culture and their enduring heritage today, enhanced with stunning reconstructions of iron-age villages, dramatizations of major historic ..."
"Celtic culture was to spread to cover an area stretching from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. Soon after 400 B.C., Celtic tribes erupted over the Alps and attacked Rome and Delphi. The Celts were never to create an Empire, but they would come face to face with one - the Roman Empire. The decline of the Celts had begun."
"The Celts are surrounded by an aura of romance and mysticism, and echoes of the past still resonate today. Many of the traditional feast dates of Western Civilization have their roots in the pagan Celtic past. There is also a prevailing uniqueness in the peoples of the Celtic nations and their descendants-their love of poetry, literature and music."
The Napoleonic Wars (The Compact Guide) by RichardHolmes 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 ..."
D-Day From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris 6 June 1944 by RichardHolmes, 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 Science of Self Discipline Science-Backed Strategies to Crush Laziness and Procrastination, Improve Productivity, and Achieve Your Goals by RichardHolmes Paperback, Published 2019 by Independently Published ISBN-13: 978-1-07-137437-5, ISBN: 1-07-137437-0
Falling Upwards Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by RichardHolmes 416 Pages, Published 2019 by Harpercollins Uk ISBN-13: 978-0-00-838782-2, ISBN: 0-00-838782-6
"Lose yourself in the clouds with bestselling and prize-winning biographer and science writer Richard Holmes in this glorious history of hot-air ballooning."
Ground Work Writings on People and Places by Tim Dee, RichardHolmes 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 Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture The Aeronauts by RichardHolmes 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 ..."
A Guide to Battles Decisive Conflicts in History (The Oxford Reference Collection) by RichardHolmes, Martin Marix Evans Hardcover, 440 Pages, Published 2018 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-882897-6, ISBN: 0-19-882897-7
"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."
Ground Work Writings on People and Places (Hardback) by Tim Dee, RichardHolmes Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2018 by Jonathan Cape ISBN-13: 978-1-910702-71-0, ISBN: 1-910702-71-4
"We are living in the anthropocene – an epoch where everything is being determined by the ruinous activities of just one soft-skinned, warm-blooded, short-lived, pedestrian species. How best to live in the ruins that we have made? This anthology of commissioned work tries to answer this as it explores new and enduring cultural landscapes, here and abroad, in a celebration of local distinctiveness that includes new work from some of ou ..."
This Long Pursuit Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by RichardHolmes 368 Pages, Published 2017 by Pantheon ISBN-13: 978-1-101-87176-8, ISBN: 1-101-87176-8
"Most problematic of all was his relationship with the beautiful Isabella Wolff (
another divorcée), who may indeed have genuinely been his mistress. Lawrence
met Mrs Wolff in 1803, after the long and hysterical entanglement with the two
Siddons girls was over. (André Maurois wrote an entire novel about this, Mape:
The World of Illusion (1926), shrewdly suggesting Lawrence was not really in
love with them at all, but was in thrall to ..."
This Long Pursuit Reflections of a Romantic Biographer (Paperback) by RichardHolmes Paperback, 368 Pages, Published 2017 by William Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-816872-8, ISBN: 0-00-816872-5
"Across three centuries, and much of Europe – ‘Holmes writes beautifully … A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ The OldieThirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps – a revolutionary book that would become a bestseller and influence profoundly a whole generation of younger writers. The Long Pursuit is a companion book in that it ranges widely over the arts, science, poetry and inspiration ..."
This Long Pursuit Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by RichardHolmes Hardcover, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by Harper Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-738694-9, ISBN: 0-00-738694-X
"A confessional chronicle and pilgrimage that takes biographer Richard Holmes across three centuries, through much of Europe and into both his intellectual passions as well as the lively company of many earlier biographers. Central to his book is a powerful evocation of the lives of women - both scientific and literary. 'If our world is to be saved, we must understand it both scientifically and imaginatively'. So writes biographer Richar ..."
This Long Pursuit Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by RichardHolmes Digital, 368 Pages, Published 2016 by William Collins ISBN-13: 978-0-00-816871-1, ISBN: 0-00-816871-7
"Across three centuries, and much of Europe – “Holmes writes beautifully… A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ The OldieThirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps – a revolutionary book that would become a bestseller and influence profoundly a whole generation of younger writers. The Long Pursuit is a companion book in that it ranges widely over the arts, science, poetry and inspiration t ..."