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A Guide to Battles by Richard Holmes
$19.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Oxford Paperback Reference S.
This fascinating book tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history, from Agincourt, Lepanto, and Trafalgar, to Gettysburg, Stalingrad, and the Somme. It begins with the battle of Megiddo fought by the ancient Egyptians and takes the reader through to the Se ...Show more
Battle by Richard Holmes
$25.00 NZD
Category: Childrens Books | 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
Battlefield : Decisive Conflicts in History by Richard Holmes
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Salamis, Agincourt, Lepanto, Trafalgar, the Somme, Stalingrad: Battlefield encompasses almost 300 of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history. Battlefield summarizes the best of contemporary scholarship on battles and war in an accessible, engaging narrative. Detailed maps ...Show more
Britain at War by Richard Holmes
$52.95 NZD
Category: History
Takes the reader on a fascinating journey through time to visit Britain's battefields recreating their bloody atmosphere and marking crucial moments in Britain's turbulent history.
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
$29.99 NZD
Category: History
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 - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. 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 ...Show more
Coleridge - Darker Reflections by Richard Holmes
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Coleridge - Early Visions by Richard Holmes
$36.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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. 'Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our vie ...Show more
Coleridge: Early Visions by Richard Holmes
$44.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes; Imperial War Museum
$65.00 NZD
Category: History
D-Day was the largest amphibious invasion in history, and this graphic account explores all the details of its planning and execution, as well as the campaign that effectively destroyed the German forces in France. Enhancing the superb information on key personnel, weapons, and military units are a DVD ...Show more
D-Day Remembered: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris by Richard Holmes
$0.00 NZD
Category: History
D-Day, the largest amphibious invasion in history, took place on 6 June 1944. The subsequent battle of Normandy involved over a million men, and helped seal the fate of The Third Reich. This is a graphic account of the planning and execution of Operation Overlord, as well as the campaign that effectivel ...Show more
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage by Richard Holmes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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 convicte ...Show more