A riveting history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the 18th century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science, "The Age of Wonder" explores the earliest ideas of "dynamic science": an infinite, mysterious Nature waiting to be discovered.
The Oxford Companion to Military History is essential reading for anyone who wants to understand how our world has been shaped, and continues to be shaped, by conflict. It is a comprehensive A-Z guide to warfare from the classical period to the present day. Over 1,300 entries, by a team of more than 150 specialists, cover subjects such as weapons ...
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 ...
Based on the letters and diaries of the British soldiers who served as the backbone of the army from 1760 to 1860, this illuminating book is rich in the history of a fascinating era. of illustrations.
Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, Gettysburg, Isandlwana, the Somme, Stalingrad: Battlefield tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Second Gulf war of 2003. On the way it encompasses ...
How has war shaped modern society and vice versa? How has it changed over the centuries between the introduction of firearms and the invention of the atom bomb? How is war waged today? This excitingly illustrated book examines the techniques, technology, and theory of warfare from the 'military revolution' of the seventeenth century to the present ...
In this homage to the biographer's art, Richard Holmes takes several journeys that lead to personal and biographical discovery: he follows Robert Louis Stevenson's travels in the south of France, explores Mary Wollstonecraft's Paris and retraces Shelley's path through Italy. Throughout, Holmes stresses the importance of the biographer's intense ...
Here the celebrated biographer of Coleridge presents essays on Shelley, Voltaire, the Fitzgeralds, and many more literary lives, in addition to reports on his "side track" wayfaring that took him occasionally off the biographical course, but onto adventures equally fascinating.
This biography considers Coleridge as a man apart from his writings. Holmes' objective is to give an impression of what the poet was like in person and as a conversationalist. Holmes reveals him to be disorganized, slothful, neurotically anxious and overly dependent on others. The book won the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award. The author has ...
One of a series of reference books giving detailed information on a variety of subjects and interests, this book on battle combines an introduction to the subject with reference information.
Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book. Richard Holmes charts ...
On 1 July 1916, after a stupendous 7-day artillery preparation, the British Army finally launched its attack on the German line around the River Somme. Over the next four and half months they continued to attack, with little or no gain, and with horrendous losses to both sides. This book, written by the world's foremost expert in the subject, ...
The unmissable Sunday Times bestseller now in paperback. 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 of those who fought it. The First World War is embedded in the British ...
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., has been called the greatest jurist and legal scholar in the history of the English-speaking world. In this collection of his speeches, opinions, and letters, Richard Posner reveals the fullness of Holmes' achievements as judge, historian, philosopher, and master of English style. Thematically arranged, the volume ...
"Troop Leader" is a unique account of one man's experience of the battle for Europe in 1944 and 1945. 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 campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought throughout the Battle for Normandy and into the Low ...
In this second volume of his magisterial portrait of Samuel Taylor Coleridge--remembered as the greatest talker of his age--Holmes portrays the man though his own magnificent and humorous flights of phrase and metaphor. photos.
Utilizing many never-before-published photographs, the greatest military conflict of all time is skillfully chronicled in this book. With informative and authoritative captions, this pictorial vividly recaptures the haunting memories and scenes of the war's greatest and most devastating moments. 500 photos, 50 in color.
From the bestselling author of "Tommy and Redcoat", a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. "Sahib" is a broad and sweeping military history of the ...
This study of war skillfully clarifies the complexities of four major World War II military campaigns: El Alamein, Monte Cassino (Italy), Operation Market Garden (of which Arnhem formed a crucial part), and the Battle of Britain (the RAF's bomber offensive against Germany). The book originates in Holmes's conviction that the sacrifices made by ...
Using the same bracket system as the enormously popular NCAA basketball tournament, the authors have organized everything that "really" matters in culture--people, arts, history--through a scheme of binary pairings that finally reveals what is truly the best in its class.
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 a radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant poetic innovator.
While many studies of Winston Churchill focus rightly on his amazing career as prime minister, when he led his nation through its most difficult time, IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHURCHILL looks at Churchill's influences. In this readerly and accessible biography, Richard Holmes mines the many letters, public records, and biographies by other writers, as ...
A riveting exploration of the world's most highly trained military units, from the ancient Spartans to modern-day U.S. Navy SEALs, this handbook offers over 700 illustrations of equipment and techniques used by today's famous special forces.
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