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A Guide to Battles by Richard Holmes
$32.95 AUD
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
Battlefield by Richard Holmes
$55.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 Secon ...Show more
Battlefield : Decisive Conflicts in History by Richard Holmes
$39.95 AUD
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
Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
$23.99 AUD
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
$30.95 AUD
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
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
'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 physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesm ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$35.00 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
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 Richard Holmes
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer by Holmes Richard
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF CHURCHILL by HOLMES RICHARD
$24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
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
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
$39.95 AUD
Category: Australian Non fiction | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Marlborough : England's Fragile Genius by Richard Holmes
$59.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Best-selling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, 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 stage an ...Show more