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The Age of Wonderby Richard HolmesISBN 0007149522 (0-00-714952-2)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Atkinsby Richard HolmesISBN 0007137516 (0-00-713751-6)
Hardcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Atkins'Book summary:The first history of the First World War to put the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage. This superb and important book tells the story of this epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it. Unmissable. The First World War is deeply dug into the consciousness of the British. The images it conjures are of blood, barbed wire, shell-holes filled with dead bodies; of subalterns with wispy moustaches who never had the chance to grow old; of soldiers with faces vacant with shell-shock; of great aunts who never married. Holmes, one of Britain's foremost military historians and TV presenters, broke new ground when he published Redcoat: his history of the British soldier 1750-1860. Now in the same inimitable style, Tommy tells the story of the First World War through the experiences of those who fought it. Over 6 million men served in the British army (22% of the adult male population). Nearly one million lost their lives and over 2 million were wounded. This is the story of all these men, and the women they left behind. By using completely unseen letters, diaries, memoirs and poetry of 1914-1918 to complete his picture of the generation that fought and died in the mud of Flanders during the First World War, the life and character of Sgt Tommy Atkins is cast. Richard Holmes quotes many who wrote at lunchtime and died before tea; of women who lost husbands and brothers in the same afternoon and those who's mental health was destroyed for ever by shell shock. He examines their motivation, the impact of their service, their attitudes to war and to the enemy, and ultimately the legacy of their experience. This book covers completely new ground and the result is a moving testament to the courage and sacrifice of a generation. It tells -- for the first time -- the real story of trench warfare, the strength and fallability of the human spirit, and the individuals behind an epic event. It is an emotional and unforgettable masterpiece from one of our most important historians. [via]
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Coleridge : Darker Reflectionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0007204566 (0-00-720456-6)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Coleridge : Darker Reflections'Book summary:Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was. This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author. [via]
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Coleridge : Early Visionsby Richard HolmesISBN 0007204574 (0-00-720457-4)
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Dr Johnson and Mr Savageby Richard HolmesISBN 0007204558 (0-00-720455-8)
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Footstepsby Richard HolmesISBN 0007204531 (0-00-720453-1)
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Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914by Richard HolmesISBN 0007137540 (0-00-713754-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750-1914'Book summary:From the bestselling author of "Tommy and Redcoat", a magnificent and rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire, making full use of personal accounts of soldiers who served in the vast and varied nation that made up the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. "Sahib" is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of "Tommy and Redcoat" before it, is on the men who served in India and the women who followed them across that vast and dusty continent, bore their children, and, all too often, mopped their brows as they died. The book begins with the remarkable story of India's rise from commercial enclave to great Empire, from Clive's victory of Plassey, through the imperial wars of the eighteenth century and the Afghan and Sikh Wars of the 1840s, through the bloody turmoil of the Mutiny, and the frontier campaigns at the century's end. With its focus on the experience of ordinary soldiers, "Sahib" explains to us why soldiers of the Raj had joined the army, how they got to India and what they made of it when they arrived. The book examines Indian soldiering in peace and war, from Kipling's 'snoring barrack room' to storming parties assaulting mighty fortresses, cavalry swirling across open plains, and khaki columns inching their way between louring hills. Making full use of extensive and often neglected archive material in the India Office Library and National Army Museum, "Sahib" does for the British soldier in India - whether serving a local ruler, forming part of the Indian army, or soldiering with a British regiment - what "Tommy" did for the ordinary soldier in the First World War. [via]
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Sidetracksby Richard HolmesISBN 000720454X (0-00-720454-X)
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Tommy: The British Soldier On The Western Front, 1914-1918by Richard HolmesISBN 0007137524 (0-00-713752-4)
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Wellington : The Iron Dukeby Richard HolmesISBN 0007137508 (0-00-713750-8)
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