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Holmes clarifies the complexities of four major WWII military engagements: El Alamein, Italy, Arnhem, and the Battle of Britain. He recreates what it was really like to be in the midst of conflict from eye-witness accounts of servicemen and women.

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Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmess classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.

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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.

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A classic reissue of Richard Holmess brilliant book on Samuel Johnsons friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography.

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Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier.

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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 and Crcy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres.

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Richard Holmess great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume Sidetracks.

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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.

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Biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.

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'Richard Holmes provides a truly fresh interpretation of the great man Holmess mature and wise portrait is studded with facts about the period and episodes in Churchills life that amuse, engage and entice.

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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.

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The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in the early months of the First World War is one of the great dramas of European history.

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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.

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In this classic work, the author of 'Footsteps' collects the biographical stories that have captured his fancy in the course of researching his books on the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and memoir.

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English biographies edited and introduced by Richard Holmes.

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From Hastings to Dunkirk, Agincourt to The Somme, Richard vividly recreates the atmosphere of these key battles in our history. There were other obvious considerations that favoured certain battles over others: battles that were particularly decisive, or ones that were well documented, or have battlefields that remain striking today.

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The definitive biography of Sir John French, by the increasingly famous Richard Holmes.

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For most British people, the First World War was the Western Front, the trench line stretching from the Swiss Frontier to the North Sea.

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A history of World War I that places centre-stage on the British soldiers who fought in the trenches, this book tells the story of war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it.

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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

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Richard Holmes brings together Shelley's almost unknown prose writings on love as well as the better-known love poetry for which he is famous. The collection presents an intellectual and emotional portrait of a great poet's beliefs and personality.

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Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize and winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books, Richard Holmess dazzling portrait of the age of great scientific discovery is a groundbreaking achievement.

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A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation Oldie

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The reality of what it is to be a soldier, by Britain's foremost military historian.