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

In The Transcendence of the World , Richard Holmes brings together some of the major figures in the phenomenological movement to help explain our e...

Magnificent history of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900 by one of Britain’s best-known and accomplished military writers and broadcaste...

Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’. In 1985, Richard Holmes publ...

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 Colerid...

Controversial and revisionist history of America’s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series – written...

'Battlefields of the Second World War' is what every Richard Holmes fan has been waiting for. In this fascinating and brilliantly articulated study...

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

A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes’ epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greate...

'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 c...

Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes’s biography of ...

Richard Holmess insightful new biography of one of Britains greatest leaders is both a study in character and the story of an extraordinary career....

The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a...

Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain’s greatest-ever soldier, the man who p...

The definitive biography of Sir John French, by the increasingly famous Richard Holmes.Sir John French is a figure who has always aroused controver...

This one-volume edition comprises both Richard Holmes' well-loved War Walks and War Walks 2. Dates such as 1066 and names such as Dunkirk often s...

Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating account of the life of John Churchill, the Duke of Marl...

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....

De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north-east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies ha...

‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, scienc...

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