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ISBN: 9780007149537 - The Age of Wonder Bestseller The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007149530  ISBN13: 9780007149537
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPress
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 03 Sep 2009
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. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize... More

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ISBN: 9780007225699 - Soldiers Soldiers
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007225695  ISBN13: 9780007225699
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPress
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 01 Sep 2011
A magisterial new history of the British soldier - a man famously described by the Duke of Wellington as 'the scum of the earth'. From battlefield to barrack-room, this book is stuffed to the brim with anecdotes and stories of soldiers from the... More

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ISBN: 9780091917531 - The World at War The World at War
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0091917530  ISBN13: 9780091917531
Publisher: Ebury Press
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 01 Sep 2011
A definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants - from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast in 1973, the result was an... More

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ISBN: 9780007441358 - The Age of Wonder The Age of Wonder
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007441355  ISBN13: 9780007441358
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPress
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 27 Oct 2011
Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley, explores the scientific ferment that swept across Britain at the end of 18th... More

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ISBN: 9781847324924 - D-Day: 6 June 1944 D-Day: 6 June 1944
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 1847324924  ISBN13: 9781847324924
Publisher: Carlton Books Ltd
Edition: Revised edition
Format: Hardback
Publication date: 12 May 2011
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 title provides an account of the planning and execution... More

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ISBN: 9781846682315 - Churchill's Bunker Churchill's Bunker
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 1846682312  ISBN13: 9781846682315
Publisher: Profile Books Ltd
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Jun 2011
An exploration of one of the important sites in British history, Churchill's bunker. Drawing on a range of material, including first-hand accounts of the people who lived there, it reveals how and why the bunker and its war machine developed... More

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ISBN: 9780007204533 - Footsteps Footsteps
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007204531  ISBN13: 9780007204533
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPerennial
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 15 Aug 2005
Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished alongside its sister volume Sidetracks. Richard Holmes's great work of biographical exploration, rejacketed and republished alongside its sister volume Sidetracks. More

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ISBN: 9780007275496 - Shots from the Front Shots from the Front
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007275498  ISBN13: 9780007275496
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPress
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 02 Sep 2010
A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling author of 'Tommy', of the human experience of war as directly witnessed by British soldiers in the First World War. A handsomely illustrated photographic account, by the bestselling... More

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ISBN: 9780007204564 - Coleridge Coleridge
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007204566  ISBN13: 9780007204564
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPerennial
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Dec 2005
By the age of thirty, Samuel Taylor Coleridge had written much of the poetry for which he is now remembered - but the consequence of reaching such artistic heights so early in his career was to cast a shadow over the last three decades of his life. More

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ISBN: 9780007204571 - Coleridge Coleridge
Richard Holmes

ISBN10: 0007204574  ISBN13: 9780007204571
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers HarperPerennial
Edition: New edition
Format: Paperback
Publication date: 05 Dec 2005
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. Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year... More