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Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
30.00 NZD
Category: History
For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes. '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 confines that Churchill turne ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
27.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
'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 most fundamental laws of physics and gave humans flight' New Republic, Best Books of 2013 CHOSEN AS BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR IN ** Guardian ** New Statesm ...Show more
Fatal Avenue by Richard Holmes
29.99 NZD
Category: Military
De Gaulle called it a 'fatal avenue' - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over this bloody terrain, and the names of battles fought here read like a dictionary of military history - from Agincourt, Calais an ...Show more
Sahib : The British soldier in India 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes
27.00 NZD
Category: Military
From bestselling author of "Tommy and Redcoat", the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire considered to be 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 an ...Show more
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
27.00 NZD
Category: Military
From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier. Since 1660 the army has evolved and adapted, but the social organisation of the men has changed less, with the major ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
28.00 NZD
Category: History
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. The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, who stepped ...Show more
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
40.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science
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 century in this ground-breaking new biography . 'The Age of Wonde ...Show more
The Western Front by Richard Holmes
28.00 NZD
Category: History
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 there that the majority of nearly nine million British and Dominion soldiers who enlisted during the war served, and where most of the 947,000 who were killed m ...Show more
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
30.00 NZD
Category: History
"The World at War" is the 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 a unique and irreplaceable record sin ...Show more
The World at War - The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
44.99 NZD
Category: History
"The World at War is the 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 a unique and irreplaceable record sinc ...Show more
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour by Richard Holmes
70.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction
With a spectacular illustrated journey through 4,000 years of weaponry, Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour is the most comprehensive visual reference charting the history of arms and armour worldwide. Follow the evolution of weaponry from stone maces to machine-guns, and discover the brutal his ...Show more
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