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    Coleridge: Darker Reflections

    Richard Holmes

    Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

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    A Short History of World War II

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    This is the definitive narrative history of the people, politics, and events of the Second World War - the epic conflict that shaped the modern world.

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    D-Day Remembered

    Imperial War Museum, Richard Holmes

    Including rare material from the Imperial War Museum archive, this graphic account of the planning and execution of the D-Day landings and campaign commemorates the 80th anniversary of this 'Day…

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    Resilient Hybrid Electronics for Extreme/Harsh Environments

    Resilient and Survivable Hybrid Electronics

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    You Are Sherlock Holmes: You control the action: three interactive cases

    Richard Wolfrik Galland

    Strap on the deerstalker of the world’s most famous detective: in this interactive puzzling adventure you choose which steps to take.

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    Mallee Country: Land, People, History

    Richard Broome,Charles Fahey,Andrea Gaynor,Katie Holmes

    Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present

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    The Seafarer’s Ghost

    Richard Chandler

    Sherlock Holmes finds himself pursued, while Dr. Watson endures an attack, leaving Scotland Yard perplexed. The case revolves around the sighting of a man believed to have died five years…

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    The Napoleonic Wars

    Prof Richard Holmes

    Includes rare illustrations and documents of historic importance.

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    The Napoleonic Wars

    Prof Richard Holmes

    Includes rare illustrations and documents of historic importance.

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    Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air: An Unconventional History of Ballooning

    Richard Holmes

    ‘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…

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    Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945

    Richard Holmes

    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…

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    Riding the Retreat: Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited

    Richard Holmes

    The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history. Blending his recreation…

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    The Western Front

    Richard Holmes

    For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea. This account covers things from how…

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    This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

    Richard Holmes

    ‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie

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    Rhode Island Lighthouses: A Pictorial History

    Richard Holmes

    The book is a pictorial history of Rhode Island’s thirty-one lighthouses and two lightships stations. There are over 200 photographs in the book, including rare views of Gould Island Lighthouse…

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    Battlefields of the Second World War

    Richard Holmes

    Holmes clarifies the complexities of four major WWII military engagements: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem, and the Battle of Britain. He recreates what it was really like to be in the…

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    Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage

    Richard Holmes

    In this outstanding, eminently readable work of literary scholarship, Holmes explores the enigmatic friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet Richard Savage, whom Johnson memorialized in Lives of the Poets…

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    Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer

    Richard Holmes

    This is the story of a young English biographer travelling alone through Europe in search of the romantic writers of the past. It begins when the author is 18, sleeping…

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    The Ratters Of Lightning Ridge

    Richard Holmes

    Australia is unique in that it is the home of 95% of the world’s known black opal reserves, all buried beneath the dry Outback soil in a small area of…

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    The Chartulary of St John of Pontefract: From the Original Document in the Possession of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., of Woolley Park

    This detailed two-volume chartulary of the Cluniac priory of St John of Pontefract, is a valuable resource for Yorkshire history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Compiled in the mid-thirteenth…

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    The Chartulary of St John of Pontefract: From the Original Document in the Possession of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., of Woolley Park

    This detailed two-volume chartulary of the Cluniac priory of St John of Pontefract, is a valuable resource for Yorkshire history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Compiled in the mid-thirteenth…

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    The Chartulary of St John of Pontefract 2 Volume Set: From the Original Document in the Possession of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., of Woolley Park

    This detailed two-volume chartulary of the Cluniac priory of St John of Pontefract, is a valuable resource for Yorkshire history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Compiled in the mid-thirteenth…

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    A Quantum Field Theory with Permutational Symmetry - 2nd Edition

    Richard Holmes

    A physical theory is measured by its ability to provide a complete, compelling, and unifying mathematical description of the observed properties of matter. The Standard Model meets these criteria in…

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    Acts of War: The Behavior of Men in Battle

    Richard Holmes

    Through interviews, historical accounts, and numerous years of research, Richard Holmes examines the behavior of men in battle through the course of war. In this compelling attempt to explain the…

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    Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804

    Richard Holmes

    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, one of Britain’s greatest poets.

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    Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

    Richard Holmes

    A rich, anecdotal history of the British soldier from the American Revolution through the Indian Mutiny.

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    In the Footsteps of Churchill

    Richard Holmes

    Investigates the influences that shaped the Churchill: his troubled schooldays, his flamboyant politician father, Randolph, and his famously attractive American mother, Jennie. This book argues that the qualities that made…

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    The Age of Wonder: The Romantic Generation and the Discovery of the Beauty and Terror of Science

    Richard Holmes

    Brilliantly conceived as a relay of scientific stories, The Age of Wonder investigates the earliest ideas of deep time and space, and the explorers of dynamic science, of an infinite…

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    This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer

    Richard Holmes

    ‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie

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    Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture the Aeronauts

    Richard Holmes

    NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE and FELICITY JONES

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    The Complete War Walks: From Hastings to Normandy

    Richard Holmes

    In The Complete War Walks Richard Holmes takes us on a journey through time to visit 12 battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium that mark crucial moments in Britain’s…

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    The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives

    Richard Holmes

    A 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…

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    Churchill’s Bunker: The Secret Headquarters at the Heart of Britain’s Victory

    Richard Holmes

    For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes.

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    Shelley: The Pursuit

    Richard Holmes

    This winner of the Somerset Maugham Award dispenses with the established picture of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a blandly ethereal character by projecting a startling image of the poet as…

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    James Arbuckle: Selected Works

    This work contains a selection of James Arbuckle’s poems and essays presented in a first modern scholarly edition with a biographical introduction. The work, which includes original poems, translations of…

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    The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French

    Richard Holmes

    The definitive biography of Sir John French, by the increasingly famous Richard Holmes.

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    Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket

    Richard Holmes

    Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900.

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    Wellington: The Iron Duke

    Richard Holmes

    Richard Holmes, military historian and broadcaster, tells the story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon.

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    Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914

    Richard Holmes

    From bestselling author of ‘Tommy’ and ‘Redcoat’, the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire considered to be the jewel in Britain’s…

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    The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science

    Richard Holmes

    Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes’s dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking…

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    Footsteps

    Richard Holmes

    Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.

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    Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

    Richard Holmes

    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.

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    Coleridge: Early Visions

    Richard Holmes

    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, one of Britain’s greatest poets.

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    Shelley: The Pursuit

    Richard Holmes

    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.

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    Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War

    Richard Holmes

    Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier.

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    Marlborough: Britain’S Greatest General

    Richard Holmes

    Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain’s finest soldier, who rose from genteel…

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    Failed Ambitions

    Lee-Ann Monk, David Henderson

    The history of Melbourne's Kew Children's Cottages (1887-2008) is the challenging story of an institution that failed its residents - and it is vividly relevant to today, when the rights…

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    All Quiet On The Western Front

    At the rise of World War I, German patriot Paul Baumer (Richard Thomas) and his friends enlist in the Imperial German Army. In search of adventure and eager to assert…

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