Tras años de carencias o altibajos, la biografía de nuevo está en alza. Este género todoterreno ha demostrado su capacidad de evolucionar y sobrevivir a modas historiográficas, imperativos comerciales, fronteras cultural...
Richard Holmes supo que se había convertido en biógrafo cuando le devolvieron un cheque: sin darse cuenta, lo había fechado en 1772. Es que son muchos años dedicado a seguir los pasos de los protagonistas de sus libros, viajand...
Arthur Colley Wellesley (1769-1852), más conocido como el duque de Wellington, es uno de los militares más célebres de todos los tiempos, y su trayectoria como hombre de armas ha estado envuelta desde siempre e un cierto aire de leyen...
La casaca roja define a la infantería imperial británica, aun cuando en otro tiempo fue vestida también por unidades de caballería. Se trata de uno de los cuerpos más míticos de la historia, algunas de cuyas proez...
Written by one of Britain's best known and most respected military historians, this is the essential account of the Napoleonic campaigns. Now in a new condensed and accessible edition
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 stronges...
You Can Survive Your Life's Storms! In this book, you will understand and learn from the issues, thoughts, motivations, and dynamics in Noah's life that transformed him from a nobody into the one man with his family that God chose to use for the...
In a dazzling fusion of history, art, science, and biography, Falling Upwards resurrects the daring men and women who first risked their lives to take to the air in balloons.
âNominally a history of the hot air balloon, âFalling Upwardsâ is really a history of hope and fantasy â and the quixotic characters who disobeyed that most fundamental laws of physic...
From the redcoat who served Charles II to the modern, camouflage-clad guard at Camp Bastion, from battlefield to barrack-room, this is a magisterial social history of the British soldier.
'The Age of Wonder' is Richard Holmes' first major work of biography for a decade. It has been inspired by the scientific ferment that swept through Britain at the end of the 18th century, and which Holmes now radically redefines as 'the...
John Churchill is, by any reasonable analysis, Britain's greatest ever soldier. He mastered strategy, tactics and logistics. His big four battles, Blenheim (which saved the Holy Roman Empire), Ramilies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet were events at the very...
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
In 1719, sixteen families left Ireland for America and founded a community called Nutfield, which evolved into modern Derry. For centuries, Derry retained its small-town character, but the 1963 opening of Interstate 93 changed the town forever. Within...