Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
(This edition includes a limited number of illustrations.)From celebrated military historian Richard Holmes, bestselling author of ‘Tommy’ and ‘Red...
Книги автора - Richard Holmes
Sidetracks
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
In the ebook version of the classic, the author of ‘Footsteps’ collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the co...
Coleridge: Early Visions
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
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...
Coleridge: Darker Reflections
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes’s classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.Richard Holmes’s biography of Coleridge t...
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
(This edition includes a limited number of illustrations.)‘Redcoat is a wonderful book. It is not just a work of history – but one of enthusiasm an...
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the sto...
Footsteps
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a sma...
Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
A classic reissue of Richard Holmes’s brilliant book on Samuel Johnson’s friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Pr...
Gilchrist on Blake: The Life of William Blake by Alexander Gilchrist
Автор(ы): Alexander Gilchrist, Richard Holmes
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gi...
Defoe on Sheppard and Wild: The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild by Daniel Defoe
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes, Даниэль Дефо
Part of the outstanding biographical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every bo...
Johnson on Savage: The Life of Mr Richard Savage by Samuel Johnson
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes, Samuel Johnson
Lives that Never Grow OldPart of a radical series –edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Joh...
Godwin on Wollstonecraft: The Life of Mary Wollstonecraft by William Godwin
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes, William Godwin
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDThis unique series – edited by Richard Holmes – recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is...
Southey on Nelson: The Life of Nelson by Robert Southey
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes, Southey Robert
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDA radical new series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every ...
Scott on Zélide: Portrait of Zélide by Geoffrey Scott
Автор(ы): Geoffrey Scott, Richard Holmes
‘Lives that Never Grow Old’ is a wonderful series– edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Eve...
The Knox Brothers
Автор(ы): Penelope Fitzgerald, Richard Holmes
‘When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, and it never occurred to me that everyone else in the world was not like them.’In this, only h...
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
‘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...
This Long Pursuit: Reflections of a Romantic Biographer
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
Across three centuries, and much of Europe – “Holmes writes beautifully… A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generati...
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors
Автор(ы): Richard Holmes
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...
