HOLMES RICHARD

(P/B) THE NAPOLEONIC WARS
This outstandingly vivid and accessible book, written by one of Britain's leading historians, provides the essential overview of Napoleon's career. Beginning in revolutionary France with a brilliant young Lieutenant who still styled himself Napoleone di Buonaparte, Holmes examines every facet of his subject's military career: his astonishing victories at the Battle of the Pyramids, Marengo, Jena and Austerlitz, through to defeat and exile under the immense weight of the great powers who were determined to stop the man who would be emperor...
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ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΕΣ ΜΑΧΕΣ
Ένας πρωτότυπος και συναρπαστικός νέος οδηγός με τις πιο σημαντικές μάχες της ιστορίας. Υπέροχες, πολύχρωμες φωτογραφίες στολών, όπλων και πεδίων μαχών, που δημιουργούν μια μοναδική εμπειρία "αυτόπτη μάρτυρα" για το πώς δίνονταν και κερδίζονταν οι μάχες. ΔΕΙΤΕ ένα Ινδικό στιλέτο με πέντε λεπίδες - μία πλήρη Ιαπωνική πανοπλία - μετάλλια απ' όλο τον κόσμο - ένα "κανόνι-δράκο" - ένα χειρουργικό πριόνι για ακρωτηριασμούς ΜΑΘΕΤΕ τις διαφορές ανάμεσα στο κανόνι και στον όλμο - πώς χρησιμοποιήθηκαν τα αερόστατα για αναγνώριση - πώς τα τουφέκια άλ...
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(P/B) COLERIDGE
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. Coleridge: Early Visions' is the first part of Holmes's classic biography of Coleridge that forever transformed our view of the poet of Kubla Khan' and his place in the Romantic Movement. Dismissed by much recent scholarship as an opium addict, plagiarist, political apostate and mystic charlatan, Richard Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of the page as a brilliant...
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(P/B) ACTS OF WAR
The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian. This ambitious, wide-ranging, exhaustively researched book is a compelling attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier's experience in its entirety - from the humiliation of basic training and the intense comradeship of army life, to the terror, isolation and exhaustion of battle. What does it feel like to be in the firing line? How does killing change a man? And what do the extreme conditions of war reveal about a man's basic ...
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(P/B) COLERIDGE
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...
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(P/B) THE OXFORD COMPANION TO MILITARY HISTORY

(H/B) THE ROMANTICS (INSIGHTS)