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    by Richard Holmes
    £11.99

    In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.Seeing Wellington as a remarkable figure, Holmes follows his career from the ruins of his family seat in Ireland to the plains of India where Wellesley first gained his reputation as a brilliant commander, to the horrors of the Peninsular War and Waterloo.Combining his astute historical analysis with semi-biographical examination, Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military and political thinking of the time.

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    - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
    by Richard Holmes
    £11.99

    Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmes's dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.

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    - How We Took to the Air
    by Richard Holmes
    £7.99 - 10.99

    '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

  • by Richard Holmes
    £7.99

    Holmes relives Napoleon's life and times in this extraordinary period by examining letters, military maps, reports, proclamations, ship's logs and coded messages, which were previously filed away or exhibited in archives in Europe.

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    by Richard Holmes
    £12.99

    For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea.

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    - Mons to the Marne 1914 Revisited
    by Richard Holmes
    £12.99

    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.

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    - A Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
    by Richard Holmes
    £13.99

    De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais and Crecy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.

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    - Darker Reflections
    by Richard Holmes
    £13.99

    Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

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    by Richard Holmes
    £10.99

    Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.Delving into the history of the period - charting events including Wolfe's victory and death at Quebec, Wellington's Peninsular War, Waterloo, the retreat from Kabul and the Sikh wars - celebrated military historian Richard Holmes provides a comprehensive portrait of a fallible but extraordinarily successful fighting force.

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    - Britain'S Greatest General
    by Richard Holmes
    £13.49

    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 stage and saviour of the Holy Roman Empire.

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    - The Behaviour of Men in Battle
    by Richard Holmes
    £11.99

    The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.

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    by Richard Holmes
    £12.99

    'Battlefields of the Second World War' is what every Richard Holmes fan has been waiting for.

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    by Richard Holmes
    £13.49

    From Hastings to Dunkirk, Agincourt to The Somme, Richard vividly recreates the atmosphere of these key battles in our history. There were other obvious considerations that favoured certain battles over others: battles that were particularly decisive, or ones that were well documented, or have battlefields that remain striking today.

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    by Richard Holmes
    £9.49

    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 broke all the conventions of the genre and remains ons of the most intoxicating, magical works of modern literary exploration ever published.Sleeping rough, he retraces Robert Louis Stevenson's famous journey through the Cevennes. Caught up in the Parisian riots of the 1960s, he dives back in time to the terrors of Wordsworth and of Mary Wollstonecraft marooned in Revolutionary Paris and then into the strange tortured worlds of Gerard de Nerval. Wandering through Italy, he stalks Shelley and his band of Romantic idealists to Casa Magni on the Gulf of Spezia.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

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