New Releases by Richard Holmes

The story of an unusual friendship between Samuel Johnson and the poet, playwright and convicted murderer Richard Savage.

Autobiografisch relaas van het verzet van de Britse letterkundige (1849-1928) tegen zijn victoriaanse vader, een bekend zoöloog.

As we approach the 21st century our fears are changing shape: no longer will nuclear holocaust hold sway in our minds as God''s destruction by fire and brimstone did for our ancestors at the end of the first millennium. Refugees streaming north from the poverty-stricken south, destruction of the planet''s life-preserving balance and the epidemic of AIDS nurture a more insidious dread that won''t yield to the simple logic of deterrence. What then will have to be faced in future battles? Where will the lines of defence be drawn, and what will be left for the serving soldier to do?

This wide-ranging and exhaustively researched book is an attempt to grasp the very nature of war. It takes us through the soldier''s experience in its entirety - from the humiliation of basic training and the intense comradeship of army life, to the terror, isolation and exhaustion of battle.

A definitive compendium of the weapons of war, from the earliest times to today''s battles fought with sophisticated armaments, is enhanced with a chronology rich with photographs, maps, and drawings

This wide-ranging and incisive study of the military experience draws an astonishing picture of what motivates the soldier to struggle in conditions of physical and mental degradation. It reveals the humiliation of basic training, the attitude to fear, the drive for sex and loot, the elixir of comradeship.

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

दुसऱ्या महायुद्धाच्या काळात ब्रिटनचं यशस्वी नेतृत्व केलेले ख्यातकीर्त नेते म्हणजे विन्स्टन चर्चिल. जागतिक इतिहासात त्यांची कामगिरी कधी सुवर्णाक्षरांनी नोंद व्हावी अशी, तर कधी विपरीत अर्थाने इतिहास घडवणारी ठरली. अशा या वादळी व्यक्तिमत्त्वाचा आलेख या पुस्तकामध्ये मांडला आहे. चर्चिल यांचे राजकीय व्यक्तिमत्त्व आणि वैयक्तिक जीवन या अपरिहार्यपणे एकमेकांमध्ये मिसळलेल्या वाटा होत्या. विन्स्टनच्या स्वभावाचे पडसाद त्यांच्या सार्वजनिक जीवनावर आणि पर्यायाने ब्रिटनच्या आणि उर्वरित जगाच्याही पटलावर कसे उमटले? याचा मार्मिक लेखाजोखा होम्स यांनी मांडला आहे.