Hakutulokset: Richard Holmes
yhteensä 249 hakutulosta
Wellington
This title charts Wellington's military career from India to Europe, rediscovering the reasons Queen Victoria called him the greatest man the 19th century had produced. Combining …
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
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 …
A Short History of World War II
Discover the story of the world's deadliest war. Combining expert historical insight with accounts of combatants and civilians, this important book offers a brilliant summary of …
Marlborough
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 …
Rebels and Redcoats
Accompanying a four-part BBC TV series, this is the story of a vicious struggle between brothers, friends and families which forged a new nation. The book tells the history of the …
Acts of War
This Long Pursuit
'A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic …