“richard holmes”

Upon its publication ten years ago, the first volume of Richard Holmes's life of Coleridge was hailed by Michael Holroyd as "a modern masterpiece, a book that marks a climax in the golden age of modern biography." The romantic writer who emerges from these pages is unforgettably vivid and unexpecte... More

Based on the letters and diaries of the British soldiers who served as the backbone of the army from 1760 to 1860, this illuminating book is rich in the history of a fascinating era. of illustrations.Redcoat is the Story of the British soldier -- those noncommissioned men whom Kipling called "the ba... More

Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelly and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries befo... More

This winner of the Somerset Maugham Award dispenses with the established picture of Percy Bysshe Shelley as a blandly ethereal character by projecting a startling image of the poet as a radical agitator, atheist, and apostle of free love, as well as a brilliant poetic innovator."Shelley: The Pursuit... More

This book contains 30 facsimile items of D-Day memorabilia. The reader can re-live this momentous period of 20th-century history by holding and examining maps, diaries, letters, sketches, secret memos and reports, posters, and labels, which until now have remained unavailable.... More

This book distills the very best of the Imperial War Museum's remarkable and vast photographic collection. It features many unseen images of the war, covering all theaters of operation and including the work of such renowned photographers as Cecil Beaton and Bill Brandt.This book distills the very b... More