Wellington: the iron duke /anglais

Des lances assyriennes à la kalachnikov au fusil automatique M16, un descriptif fourni des armes qui ont forgé l'Histoire, celle des Empires et des Révolutions comme celle des conflits actuels, de l'Egypte antique aux forces spéciales contemporaines.

Armes ; de l'Antiquité à nos jours

Unique en son genre, cet ouvrage exceptionnel allie un récit précis sur le déroulement des faits, des photographies et témoignages qui éclairent le destin des soldats ordinaires et de chefs d'exception, des cartes détaillées sur les opérations et d'extraordinaires fac-similés de documents d'époque tels que carnets, lettres, croquis, rapports secrets, tracts ou journaux. Il nous fait revivre avec émotion les temps forts de cette gigantesque opération militaire qui reste sans pareille dans l'histoire.

Le débarquement - Du jour J à la libération de Paris

Foremost military historian Richard Holmes offers us a compelling and at times terrifying account of what it means to be a contemporary soldier.

 In this remarkable book, Holmes draws on the testimonies and personal photographs of the 700 soldiers of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment in Iraq to vividly capture their day-to-day experiences of the conflict, from camp kitchens to the heart of an armoured convey barrelling out across the desert.

 As colonel-in-chief of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment himself from 1999 until 2007, Holmes combines acute observation with heartfelt experience to produce a gripping and deeply moving vision of his regiment at war.

Dusty Warriors - Modern Soldiers at War (Text Only)

In this compelling book, Richard Holmes tells the exhilarating story of the Duke of Wellington, Britain's greatest ever soldier.

 Seeing Wellington as a remarkable figure, Holmes follows his career from the ruins of his family seat in Ireland to the plains of India where Wellesley first gained his reputation as a brilliant commander, to the horrors of the Peninsular War and Waterloo.

 Combining his astute historical analysis with semi-biographical examination, Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military and political thinking of the time.

Wellington - The Iron Duke (Text Only)

Le " jour J ", qui symbolise la plus grande invasion maritime de l'histoire, a été suivi de deux mois de campagne harassante pour plus d'un million de soldats. Cette période mouvementée de notre histoire, connue pour ses nombreux lieux de batailles, est aussi un moment trouble, où l'histoire des hommes restent flous. Grâce à l'assemblage de cartes, de journaux de bord, de lettres et de rapports qui forment plus de 30 témoignages inédits, Richard Holmes, spécialiste de la période, parvient à nous faire revivre en direct ces temps tourmentés.

D-Day

Part of the outstanding biographical series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.

 In this pioneering series, Richard Holmes, the world's leading Romantic biographer, sets out to recover the great forgotten tradition of English biographical writing. 'I have had no time for dusty tomes, ' writes Holmes, 'I have looked for brevity, intelligence and style. Above all, I have sought out great biographical writers: biographers with passion, biographers who have found a way to the heart and soul of a memorable subject.'

 Jack Sheppard was an 18th-century Houdini - a handsome young escape artist who broke out of his cell on Newgate's grim Death Row three times. Jonathan Wild was the infamous Thief-Taker General who helped to recapture him and many other criminals, only to be tried and executed himself for racketeering, among scenes of mayhem at Tyburn.

 Daniel Defoe, the master of adventure fiction, was fascinated by 'True Confessions' and the workings of the criminal personality (including its daring, its stoicism and its humour). He was the first to retell these stories, based on personal interviews in Newgate, which also include a thrilling (sometimes hour by hour) reconstruction of events.

Defoe on Sheppard and Wild - The True and Genuine Account of the Life and Actions of the Late Jonathan Wild by Daniel Defoe

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. Richard Savage was a poet, playwright and convicted murderer who roamed through the brothels and society salons of Augustan England creating a legend of poetic injustice. Strangest of all his achievements was the friendship he inspired in Samuel Johnson, then a young, unknown schoolmaster just arrived in London to seek his literary fortune. This puzzling intimacy helped to form Johnson's experience of the world and human passions, and led to his masterpiece The Life of Richard Savage, which revolutionized the art of biography and virtually invented the idea of the poet as a romantic, outcast figure.

 Richard Holmes gradually reconstructs this alliance, throwing suprising new light on the character of Dr Johnson. This extraordinary book also questions the very nature of life-writing and exposes the conflicts between friendship, truth and advocacy which the modern form has inherited.

Dr Johnson and Mr Savage

Lives that Never Grow Old

 Part of a radical series -edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Johnson's book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling to read and vividly alive.

 When he first came to London, young Samuel Johnson was befriended by the flamboyant poet, playwright and blackmailer, Richard Savage. Walking the backstreets at night, he learned Savage's extraordinary story - supposedly persecuted by a 'cruel mother', sentenced to death for a murder in a brothel, appointed Volunteer Poet Laureate to the Queen, and finally broken and outcast.

 With this moving and intimate account, Johnson created a brilliant black comedy of 18th-century Grub Street which revolutionised English biography by its psychological realism. Yet Savage's destructive charm and delusions of grandeur sometimes even threatened to entangle Johnson himself.

Wellington: the iron duke /anglais

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