Richard Holmes

• Oct-1985
• / General Fiction
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Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing of biography was changed forever. A dari...

• Aug-1989
• / General Fiction
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Through interviews, historical accounts, and numerous years of research, Richard Holmes examines the behavior of men in battle through the course of war.In this compelling attempt to explain the nature of war, the experience of a soldier during the d...

• Apr-1995
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• Jul-1998
• / General Fiction
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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. R...

• Jan-2011
• / General Fiction
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This book centers around one year of my life on my Father and Mother's turkey farm in 1953 when I was only twelve years old...

• May-2013
• / General Fiction
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D-Day is a landmark in history. The late Richard Holmes, one of the world’s most eminent military historians, tells the compelling story of history’s biggest amphibious invasion and the successful Normandy campaign, which proved to be ta turning ...

• Jan-2017
• / Thriller
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The Never Never is the name of a vast, remote area of the Australian Outback, as described in Barroft Boake's poem:"Where the Dead Men Lie":Out on the wastes of the Never Never -That's where the dead men lie!There were the heat-waves dance forever -T...