Richard Holmes Bücher

Die umfassendste Bild-Enzyklopädie zum Zweiten Weltkrieg: Anhand von über 1200 Fotografien, Illustrationen und Karten schildert dieser beeindruckende Band die Vorgeschichte und den Verlauf des verheerendsten Konfliktes der Geschichte. Aus globaler Perspektive beleuchtet er nicht nur detailliert die Kriegsziele und die militärischen Operationen, sondern beschreibt auch das Schicksal der Zivilbevölkerung und die schrecklichen Verbrechen, die während des fast sechs Jahre dauernden Krieges möglich wurden. Wichtige Protagonisten des Krieges, wie Winston Churchill oder Erwin Rommel, werden ausführlich porträtiert. Zeitzeugenberichte und zahlreiche historische Dokumente machen das Buch zu einem einzigartigen Nachschlagewerk.

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.

<i>The definitive visual history of the people, politics and events of the epic conflict that shaped the modern world, World War II</i> From the build-up of hostility in the years leading up to the war, through to the reverberations still felt in the aftermath, this is a compelling, accessible and immediate history of perhaps the most complex, frightening and destructive event in global history, World War II. Discover how deep-seated local fears and hatreds escalated into one vast global conflict that was fought out to the bitter end. Find out about key battles, political and economic forces, individual leaders and technological advances that influenced the course of the war. Cross-referencing appears throughout and timelines and global maps establish an overview of each year of the conflict, from the rise of Hitler and the Nazi party to Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima and the D-Day landings. Packed with images, including rarely seen colour photographs and unforgettable first person accounts, World War II is a uniquely accessible account of history's most devastating conflict.

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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&#39; 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.

Traces the development of warfare tactics and hardware by describing and analyzing twenty-three battles that altered the course of history from the Battle of the Nile in 1798 to the Six Day War of 1967