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Churchill's Bunker: The Secret Quarters at the Heart of Britain's War Victory by Richard Holmes
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
For the first time, the history of the bunker - and daily life inside it - is revealed, by bestselling historian Richard Holmes. 'This is the room from which I will direct the war', Churchill declared, shortly after becoming Prime Minister in 1940. It was from these cramped confines that Churchill turne ...Show more
Dusty Warriors : Modern soldiers at war by Richard Holmes
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
Our foremost military historian offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier. In this remarkable book, Richard Holmes draws on the testimonies of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment to capture in vivid detail the average so ...Show more
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
Falling Upwards: How We Took to the Air by Richard Holmes
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History
'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
Imperial War Museum's D-Day Experience by Richard Holmes
$90.00 NZD
Category: World History
Sahib : The British soldier in India 1750-1914 by Richard Holmes
$27.00 NZD
Category: World History | Reading Level: good
From bestselling author of "Tommy and Redcoat", the rich history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of empire considered to be the jewel in Britain's imperial crown. "Sahib" is a broad and sweeping military history of the British soldier in India, but its focus, like that of "Tommy an ...Show more
The Age of Wonder - How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$29.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | 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 Age of Wonder: How the Romantic Generation Discovered the Beauty and Terror of Science by Richard Holmes
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
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
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