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The Age of Wonder : How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
74.99 NZD
Category: Science | Reading Level: good-very good
DoP 2008 UK The book opens with Joseph Banks, botanist on Captain Cook's first Endeavour voyage, stepping onto a Tahitian beach in 1769, hoping to discover Paradise. Many other voyages of discovery swiftly follow, while Banks, now President of the Royal Society in London, becomes our narrative guide to ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
28.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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 First World War in Photographs (Imperial War Museum) by Richard Holmes
59.99 NZD
Category: Military
Military history is now a best-selling publishing category, and in recent years there has been a spate of enormously successful books, films and television programmes devoted to it. The First World War in Photographs showcases 400 of the best images from the Imperial War Museum
The World at War - The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives by Richard Holmes
44.99 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
"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
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
Tommy : the British soldier on the Western Front by Richard Holmes
24.99 NZD
29.95 (16% off)
Category: History
The first history of World War I to place centre-stage the British soldier who fought in the trenches, this superb and important book tells the story of an epic and terrible war through the letters, diaries and memories of those who fought it.The First World War is embedded in the British consciousness. ...Show more
Weapon: A Visual History of Arms and Armour by Richard Holmes
70.00 NZD
Category: Reference
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
Wellington The Iron Duke by Richard Holmes
24.99 NZD
26.99 (7% off)
Category: Non-Fiction | Reading Level: good
Richard Holmes, highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster, tells the exhilarating story of Britain
World War II (The Definitive Visual Guide) by Richard Holmes
60.00 NZD
Category: 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
World War Two in Photographs (SPECIAL PRICE) by Holmes Richard
45.00 NZD
Category: Military
ëWorld War II in Photographsû distills the very best of the Imperial War Museum's remarkable and vast photographic collection.This outstanding book features many unseen images of the war, covering all theaters of operation and including the work of such renowned photographers as Cecil Beaton and B ...Show more