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Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$26.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
'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
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Aviation
Falling Upwards tells the story of the enigmatic group of men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air, and so discovered a new dimension of human experience. Why they did it, what their contemporaries thought of them, and how their flights revealed the secrets of our planet in wholly u ...Show more
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors by Richard Holmes
$26.99 NZD
Category: Military History
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
$39.99 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 Romantic Poets and Their Circle by Richard Holmes
$21.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: National Portrait Gallery Companions
The ideal of the inspired artist owes its origin to the figures of the Romantic period, who revolutionised English art and literature. In this book, Richard Holmes explores the portraits and lives of such key poets as Lord Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats, and assesses the impact of their work ...Show more
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Military 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
This Long Pursuit - Reflections of a Romantic Biographer by Richard Holmes
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Across three centuries, and much of Europe - "Holmes writes beautifully... A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' The Oldie Thirty years ago Richard Holmes published Footsteps - a revolutionary book that would become a bestseller and influence profoundly a whole g ...Show more
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour by Richard Holmes
$70.00 NZD
Category: History
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
World War II (The Definitive Visual Guide) by Richard Holmes
$60.00 NZD
Category: Military History | Series: Definitive Visual Guide
This is the definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of the epic conflict that shaped the modern world, World War II. From the build-up of hostility in the years leading up to the war, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this is a compelling, accessible and imm ...Show more
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