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Battle by Richard Holmes
$19.95 AUD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Eyewitness
Help your child learn about battles with this fact-packed guide, giant wallchart, interactive clip-art CD and dedicated website. From how the rifle changed warfare to why the Red Cross was set up; let your child discover all about the most important battles in history. They'll discover more about battle ...Show more
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
$24.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes. '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 turne ...Show more
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
$27.45 AUD
$28.95 (5% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The first volume (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year) of Richard Holmes's two-volume Coleridge biography which transforms our view of this greatest of Romantic poets. Coleridge: Early Visions is the first part of a major new biography of Coleridge which will transform our view of th ...Show more
Dusty Warriors : Modern soldiers at war by Richard Holmes
$25.00 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier. 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 so ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$35.00 AUD
Category: Science
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes Richard
$27.95 AUD
Category: Biography
Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, published 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 ...Show more
Footsteps : Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Sleeping rough, Richard Holmes traces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the Parisan riots of the 1960s he dives back in tim to the terrors of Wordsworth and Mary Wollstonecroft marooned in Revolutionary Paris and then in to the strange tortured worlds of Gerard d ...Show more
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHURCHILL by HOLMES RICHARD
$24.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
Richard Holmes's insightful new biography of one of Britain's greatest leaders is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career. Much has been written about Churchill's role as British prime minister during the crisis years of the Second World War, but in this book Holmes uses new m ...Show more
Marlborough : England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
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 poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European st ...Show more
Riding the Retreat : Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited by Richard Holmes
$27.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics
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 of the military campaign with contemporary testimony and an account of his own ride over the route, Richard Holmes takes the reader ...Show more
Sahib : The British soldier in India 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes
$24.95 AUD
Category: History and Politics | Reading Level: good
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 imperial crown. "Sahib" is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of "Tommy an ...Show more
Shelley: The Pursuit by Richard Holmes
$30.95 AUD
Category: Biography
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 of all the great Romantic poets, was born in Sussex in 1792 and died in Tuscany in ...Show more