Author: Richard Holmes

This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career....

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING FELICITY JONES AND EDDIE REDMAYNE A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...

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...

From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisteria...

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 he...

A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy', of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by Britis...

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 he...