wyszukanych pozycji: 86
Wellington: The Iron Duke
ISBN: 9780007137503 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 324 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon. The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book. Richard Holmes charts Wellington's stellar military career from India to Europe, and in the process, rediscovers the reasons Queen Victoria called him the greatest man the nineteenth century had produced. Combining his astute historical analysis with a... Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier, the man who p... |
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76,32 zł |
Noah: Surviving the Storm
ISBN: 9781611949919 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 124 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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58,63 zł |
Coleridge: Early Visions, 1772-1804
ISBN: 9780375705403 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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, animated and endlessly provoking... 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,...
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97,02 zł |
Falling Upwards: Inspiration for the Major Motion Picture the Aeronauts
ISBN: 9780008380267 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A TIME MAGAZINE TOP 10 NONFICTION From ambitious scientists rising above the clouds to analyse the air to war generals floating across enemy lines, Richard Holmes takes to the air in this heart-lifting...
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EDDIE REDMAYNE AND FELICITY JONES A GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR ...
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45,78 zł |
In the Footsteps of Churchill
ISBN: 9780563493341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2006 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Investigates the influences that shaped the Churchill: his troubled schooldays, his flamboyant politician father, Randolph, and his famously attractive American mother, Jennie. This book argues that the qualities that made Churchill great also led him to c
Investigates the influences that shaped the Churchill: his troubled schooldays, his flamboyant politician father, Randolph, and his famously attractiv...
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91,88 zł |
Sidetracks: Explorations of a Romantic Biographer
ISBN: 9780679757719 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces, the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating glimpse into the mysterious art of biography. When researching, Richard Holmes has often become captivated by figures peripheral to his main subject, literary forays that he couldn't resist. These tales-the forbidden love of John Stuart Mill, the bizarre novel of Oscar Wilde's tragic grand-uncle, Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald's nightmarish yet cathartic final trip to Paris-are part of what comprises Sidetracks, a marvelously original...
With this collection of short and fascinating biographical pieces, the award-winning biographer of Coleridge and Shelley offers a fascinating ...
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92,98 zł |
The Napoleonic Wars
ISBN: 9780233005942 / Angielski / Miękka (mass market paperbound / 2020 / 144 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. |
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40,69 zł |
Dr Johnson and MR Savage
ISBN: 9780007204557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Prize for Biography. Dr Johnson & Mr Savage is the story of a mysterious eighteenth-century friendship. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright and convicted murderer who roamed through the brothels and society salons of Augustan England creating a legend of poetic injustice. Strangest of all his achievements was the friendship he inspired in Samuel Johnson, then a young, unknown schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary... A classic reissue of Richard Holmes's brilliant book on Samuel Johnson's friendship with the poet Richard Savage, which won the James Tait Black Pr... |
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40,38 zł |
The Little Field Marshal : A Life of Sir John French
ISBN: 9780304367023 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 464 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Despite being the most capable cavalry leader of his generation, Sir John French has always aroused controversy. Posterity has judged him an unfeeling butcher, responsible for more deaths in the first two hours of the battle of Loos than all the casualties on both sides in the 1944 D-Day landings. But French has another side, revealed in his private papers-- a side filled with affairs and personal torment. An esteemed Professor of Military and Security Studies tells French's compelling, dramatic story.
Despite being the most capable cavalry leader of his generation, Sir John French has always aroused controversy. Posterity has judged him an unfeeling...
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70,25 zł |
Defence Management in Uncertain Times
ISBN: 9780714655222 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 16-18 dni roboczych. Defence managers, like their counterparts in both the public and private sector need to learn to cope with change and the resulting uncertainty. This is no easy task for uncertain situations meaning that there are no sure answers or solutions. This volume represents the attempts of its contributors, military and academic, to assist in the process. To some extent uncertainty is nothing new, indeed it may be the only certainty in an era of rapid social change, increasing economic pressures. The end of the Cold War, a rise in global terrorism and rapid developments in informatics have...
Defence managers, like their counterparts in both the public and private sector need to learn to cope with change and the resulting uncertainty. This ...
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770,57 zł |
Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage
ISBN: 9780679757702 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this outstanding, eminently readable work of literary scholarship, Holmes explores the enigmatic friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet Richard Savage, whom Johnson memorialized in Lives of the Poets. Synthesizing a wide array of contradictory historical sources, from Johnson's Life of Savage to Boswell's Life of Johnson, the correspondence of Johnson's contemporaries and modern scholarship, Holmes shows that Savage was a notorious and alluring figure when Johnson first arrived in London in 1737. . . . "Holmes enlivens his study with keen insights into the...
In this outstanding, eminently readable work of literary scholarship, Holmes explores the enigmatic friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet Ric...
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68,72 zł |
Marlborough: Britain’S Greatest General
ISBN: 9780007225729 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 512 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Military historian Richard Holmes delivers an account of the life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Britain's finest soldier, who rose from genteel poverty to lead his country to glory, cementing its position as a major player on the European stage and saviour of the Holy Roman Empire.
Military historian Richard Holmes delivers an account of the life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, Britain's finest soldier, who rose from gent...
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86,51 zł |
Fatal Avenue : A Traveller's History of the Battlefields of Northern France and Flanders 1346-1945
ISBN: 9781844139385 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. A unique work combining military history and travel, which studies the most fought-over area on earth.
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 Crecy to Verdun, Vimy and Ypres. Fatal Avenue is both a history and a guide -- a unique study of a region that has witnessed more bitter military conflict than any other area of its... A unique work combining military history and travel, which studies the most fought-over area on earth.
De Gaulle called it a "fatal avenue" -- tha... |
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97,28 zł |
Enjoying the Receiving Process
ISBN: 9781662861963 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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49,76 zł |
Footsteps: Adventures of a Romantic Biographer
ISBN: 9780679770046 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed chronicler of Shelley and Coleridge, biography is a physical pursuit, an ardent and arduous retracing of footsteps that may have vanished centuries before. In this gripping book, Holmes takes us from France's Massif Central, where he followed the route taken by Robert Louis Stevenson and a sweet-natured donkey, to Mary Wollstonecraft's Revolutionary Paris, to the Italian villages where Percy Shelley tried to cast off the strictures of...
Richard Holmes knew he had become a true biographer the day his bank bounced a check that he had inadvertently dated 1772. Because for the acclaimed c...
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80,85 zł |
The Complete War Walks
ISBN: 9780563487173 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. In "The Complete War Walks" Richard Holmes takes us on a journey through time to visit 12 battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium that mark crucial moments in Britain's bloody and turbulent history.
In "The Complete War Walks" Richard Holmes takes us on a journey through time to visit 12 battlefields throughout Britain, Northern France and Belgium...
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91,88 zł |
Coleridge: Darker Reflections
ISBN: 9780007204564 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych. Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.
Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets.
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91,60 zł |
The Chartulary of St John of Pontefract: From the Original Document in the Possession of Godfrey Wentworth, Esq., of Woolley Park
ISBN: 9781108058681 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 442 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The prosperous Cluniac priory of St John the Evangelist, Pontefract, was founded around 1090 by Robert de Lacy, remaining subject to its mother-house of La Charite-sur-Loire until the fourteenth century. The charters in this two-volume work have been arranged by type: seigniorial charters; episcopal and papal charters; royal charters; and those relating to priory property, arranged geographically according to proximity to Pontefract. The chartulary is particularly valuable for topographical studies and local and family history in many cases the names of all witnesses have been transcribed....
The prosperous Cluniac priory of St John the Evangelist, Pontefract, was founded around 1090 by Robert de Lacy, remaining subject to its mother-house ...
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301,04 zł |
The Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science
ISBN: 9781400031870 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 576 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteenth century gave birth to the Romantic Age of Science.
When young Joseph Banks stepped onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, he hoped to discover Paradise. Inspired by the scientific ferment sweeping through Britain, the botanist had sailed with Captain Cook in search of new worlds. Other voyages of discovery astronomical, chemical, poetical, philosophical swiftly follow in Richard Holmes's thrilling evocation of the second scientific revolution.... The Age of Wonder is a colorful and utterly absorbing history of the men and women whose discoveries and inventions at the end of the eighteent...
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105,11 zł |
The Sieges of Pontefract Castle 1644-1648
ISBN: 9781783312832 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 530 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. The great Medieval castle of Pontefract in Yorkshire - where Richard II was held and murdered after his deposition - was besieged three times during the English Civil Wars. Held by Royalists and described by Oliver Cromwell no less as 'one of the strongest inland garrisons of the kingdom' the castle was slighted and left in ruins after it was finally taken by Parliament after the third and last siege during the second Civil War of 1648. This fine account of the three sieges, out of print since its publication in 1887, fills a much needed gap in studies of the military history of the... The great Medieval castle of Pontefract in Yorkshire - where Richard II was held and murdered after his deposition - was besieged three times durin... |
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122,24 zł |