Richard Holmes Livres

Experience the First World War's battlegrounds like never before, from the First Battle of Ypres to the grim mud of Passchendaele. This work presents stunning panoramas alongside poignant personal photographs and soldiers' recollections from the featured battles. The panoramic images, created by the British Royal Engineers for intelligence, resemble early satellite mapping. Photographers risked their lives, exposing themselves for extended periods to capture views typically seen only through a trench periscope. Many images offer a 160-degree field of view, revealing details like a soldier picking lice or a sniper in hiding. Spanning the entire Western Front, these photographs have a profound impact on general audiences while providing specialists with insights into a lost world, contextualizing other archives temporally and geographically. They challenge common perceptions of the war, depicting not only the tortured landscapes of mud but also fields of flowers, beaches, and standing churches. While desperate scenes exist, the work emphasizes that much of the conflict unfolded in a recognizable, real landscape, offering a nuanced understanding of the war's environment.

World War II is divided into nine chronological chapters, each introduced by a general overview of the military and political situation. This is followed by a comprehensive timeline, covering events in all theaters of the war. The opening chapter analyzes the build-up of hostility in the years leading up the war, both in Europe and in the Pacific. Similarly the final chapter analyzes the immediate and long-term consequences of the war and the way it has shaped recent history. In the chapters that cover the events of the war itself, the main spreads move from one theater of war to another but are linked by an easy-to-use system of cross referencing to earlier events and the consequences of the actions described on the spread. The main spreads are interspersed with features, eyewitness accounts, and galleries of weaponry and equipment. This title differs from DK's previous World War II title, in that it is a spread-by-spread account á la History (with "previous" and "following" tabs placing each spread in chronological context) of the war, rather than a narrative that needs to be read from start to finish.

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The 60th anniversary of D-Day will take place on 6 June 2004. Endorsed by the Imperial War Museum, and officially tied in with their D-Day exhibition commencing in March 2003, the book includes rare memorabilia from their archive, as well as from D-Day museums in Normandy. The CD contains veteran interviews.

Endorsed by the IWM, the book includes rare memorabilia from their archives, as well as painstakingly researched documents from the archives of D-Day museums in Normandy.

A fantastic reissue of Richard Holmes' epic biography of this most enigmatic and intriguing of the Romantic poets. This is simply one of the greatest biographical achievements of recent years.

Dramatic, uncompromising and intensely moving, The Second World War in Photographs is both unique record of this massive conflict and a reminder to today’s generations, most of whom have not experienced warfare first hand, of the heroism, horror and devastating cost of global conflict. For the first time in its history the Imperial War Museum is collaborating on a book that presents 500 of the best black-and-white and colour images from its huge photographic archive, many of which have never been previously published. It is not simply a view of the war from the Allied perspective: the images come from collections on every side of the war – including Russian, German and Japanese. Accompanied by Richard Holmes’s brilliant and informative text, this is an outstanding addition to the story of the Second World War and will provoke emotion and provide enlightenment.

Timely reissue of the second volume of Holmes's classic biographies of one of the greatest Romantic poets. Richard Holmes's biography of Coleridge transforms our view of the poet of 'Kubla Khan' forever. Holmes's Coleridge leaps out of these pages as the brilliant, animated and endlessly provoking poet of genius that he was. This second volume covers the last 30 years of Coleridge's career (1804-1834) during which he travelled restlessly through the Mediterranean, returned to his old haunts in the Lake District and the West Country, and finally settled in Highgate. It was a period of domestic and professional turmoil. His marriage broke up, his opium addiction increased, he quarrelled with Wordsworth, his own son Hartley Coleridge (a gifted poet himself) became an alcoholic. And after a desperate time of transition, Coleridge re-emerged on the literary scene as a new kind of philosophical and meditative author.