Richard Holmes
The Age Of Wonder
$59.99 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
How the Romantic generation discovered the beauty and terror of Science...Richard Holmes, prize winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th ce... More »
Fatal Avenue: A Travellers History Of Northern France And Flanders 1346 - 1945
$32.95 (Paperback book / Pimlico )
De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battle... More »
Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts In History
$39.95 (Paperback book / Oxford University Pr )
- By the renowned military historian and TV presenter, Richard Holmes
- Individual sections on 300 of the most important battles in world history - from the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians to the Second Gu...
The World At War
$79.95$29.95 (Hardcover book / Ebury Press )
THE WORLD AT WAR is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to gener... More »
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers At War
$25.00 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
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 soldier's day–to–day experience of war. Embroiled in a c... More »
Sahib: The British In India 1750 - 1914
$24.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Sahib is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of Tommy and Redcoat before it, will be on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that ... More »
Sidetracks
$24.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Sidetracks is a sister book to Footsteps, conjured up from decades of 'wanderings from the straight and narrow' of his major biographies like Shelley and Coleridge. The collection is held together by a subtle autobiograp... More »
Coleridge: Darker Reflections
$30.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was. More »
Tommy: British Soldier On The Western Front
$28.00 (Paperback book / Harper Perennial )
The first history of World War I to place centre–stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories ... More »
Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius
$60.00 (Hardcover book / Harper Collins )
John Churchill is, by any reasonable analysis, Britain's greatest ever soldier. He mastered strategy, tactics and logistics. His big four battles, Blenheim (which saved the Holy Roman Empire), Ramilies, Oudenarde and Mal... More »
Defoe On Sheppard And Wild
$22.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
Part of a radical new series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.
In this... More »
Shelley: The Pursuit
$30.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
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... More »
Johnson On Savage
$24.95 (Paperback book / Harper Collins )
When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended by the flamboyant poet, playwright and blackmailer, Richard Savage. Walking the backstreets at night, he learned Savage's extraordinary story – supposedly... More »
