Author John C. Tibbetts: John C. Tibbetts is Associate Professor of Film at the University of Kansas, USA. His has published sixteen books and his articles on film, literature, painting, theatre, and music have appeared in Notes, Film Comment, Opera News, Historical Journal of Film, Radio, Television, Journal of Popular Film and Television, and Literature/Film Quarterly. He has previously worked as a broadcaster for National Public Radio, the Christian Science Monitor Radio Network, Voice of America, and CBS television. Both of his radio series, The World of Robert Schumann and Piano Portraits, have been heard worldwide on the WFMT broadcast network and National Public Radio. He was awarded the 2008 Kansas Governor”s Arts in Education Award. Video and audio collections from his thirty years in broadcasting and education are currently being prepared for installation at the Performing Arts Library at Lincoln Center in 2012.
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John C. Tibbetts: The Gothic Imagination
This book brings together the author’s interviews with many prominent figures in fantasy, horror, and science fiction to examine the traditions and extensions of the gothic mode of storytelling over …
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Richard Holmes: James Arbuckle
James Arbuckle (c.17001742), poet and essayist, was born in Belfast to a Presbyterian merchant family of Scottish origin and educated at Glasgow University (17171723). In Glasgow, his poetry, …
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William Blake: William Blake: Song of Innocence and of Experience
‘Every page is a window open in Heaven … interwoven designs companion the poems, and gold and yellow tints diffuse themselves over the page like summer clouds. The poems [of Song of Innocence] are …
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Richard Holmes: Age of Wonder
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 …
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Richard Holmes: Gilchrist on Blake
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDPart of a radical series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Gilchrist’s ‘The Life of William Blake’ is a …
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Richard Holmes: Godwin on Wollstonecraft
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDThis unique series – edited by Richard Holmes – recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece – still thrilling to …
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Richard Holmes: Johnson on 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 …
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Richard Holmes: Sahib
Sahib is a magnificent history of the British soldier in India from Clive to the end of Empire, making full use of personal accounts from the soldiers who served in the jewel in Britain’s Imperial …
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Richard Holmes: Scott on Zelide
‘Lives that Never Grow Old’ is a wonderful series- edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still …
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Penelope Fitzgerald: Knox Brothers
Penelope Fitzgerald, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Offshore’ and ‘The Blue Flower’, turns her attention to the story of her remarkable family.When I was very young I took my uncles for granted, …
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Richard Holmes: Dusty Warriors
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 …
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Richard Holmes: Redcoat
Redcoat is the brilliant story of the common British soldier from 1700 to 1900, based on the letters and diaries of the men who served and the women who followed them.Delving into the history of the …
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Richard Holmes: Southey on Nelson
LIVES THAT NEVER GROW OLDA radical new series – edited by Richard Holmes – that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography. Every book is a biographical masterpiece, still thrilling …
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Richard Holmes: Coleridge
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’ …
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Richard Holmes: Coleridge
Winner of the 1989 Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, this is the first volume of Holmes’s seminal two-part examination of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one of Britain’s greatest poets.’Coleridge: …
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Richard Holmes: Sidetracks
In this beautiful reissue, the author of ‘Footsteps’ collects the biographical curiosities he discovered while researching the romantic poets, creating a captivating mixture of biography and …
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Richard Holmes: Marlborough
Bestselling military historian Richard Holmes delivers an expertly written and exhilarating biography of John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough and Britain’s finest soldier.Charting Churchill’s rise …
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Richard Holmes: Tommy
Groundbreaking and critically-acclaimed, Tommy is the first history of World War I to place the British soldier who fought in the trenches centre-stage.Tommy tells the story of an epic and terrible …
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Richard Holmes: Wellington
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 …
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Richard Holmes: Dr Johnson and Mr Savage
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 …
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Richard Holmes: Footsteps
Richard Holmes’s great work of biographical exploration, published alongside its sister volume ‘Sidetracks’.In 1985, Richard Holmes published a small book of essays called ‘Footsteps’ and the writing …
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Hugh Bicheno: Rebels and Redcoats
Due to the level of detail, maps are best viewed on a tablet. Controversial and revisionist history of America s first civil war. Published with hugely successful accompanying four-part BBC TV series …
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Richard Holmes: Defoe on Sheppard and Wild
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 …
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Richard Holmes: Soldiers
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.Since 1660 …
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Richard Holmes: Falling Upwards
NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING FELICITY JONES AND EDDIE REDMAYNEA GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW STATESMAN BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A DAILY TELEGRAPH BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW REPUBLIC BEST …
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Richard Holmes: This Long Pursuit
‘A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation’ Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art, science and poetry, award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels …
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Martin Marix Evans & Richard Holmes: Guide to Battles
This fascinating book tells the stories of the most dramatic, memorable, and important conflicts in world history, from Agincourt, Lepanto, and Trafalgar, to Gettysburg, Stalingrad, and the Somme. It …
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Holmes Richard T. Holmes: Churchill's Bunker
“This is the room from which I will direct the war, ” Churchill declared upon seeing the dank storage basement in an improbably central location near the Houses of Parliament. The …
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Alex Alexandreou & Richard Bartle: Human Resource Management in the British Armed Forces
This study of the future of human resource management in the British armed forces considers the impace of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Macpherson report. It covers ethnic minorities and gay …
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Alex Alexandreou & Richard Bartle: Human Resource Management in the British Armed Forces
This study of the future of human resource management in the British armed forces considers the impace of the Human Rights Act 1998 and the Macpherson report. It covers ethnic minorities and gay …
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Richard Holmes & Teri McConville: Defence Management in Uncertain Times
From the impact of the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, to the problems of military uncertainty and the role of women in combat, this collection of essays explores the changing face of …
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Richard Holmes & Teri McConville: Defence Management in Uncertain Times
From the impact of the attacks on New York and Washington in 2001, to the problems of military uncertainty and the role of women in combat, this collection of essays explores the changing face of …
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Richard Holmes: Churchill’s Bunker
‘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 turned a seemingly inevitabl …
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William Godwin & Mary Wollstonecraft: Short Residence in Sweden & Memoirs of the Author of ‘The Rights of Woman’
In these two closely linked works – a travel book and a biography of its author – we witness a moving encounter between two of the most daring and original minds of the late eighteenth century: A …
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Lucy Newlyn: Vital Stream
A work of historical fiction, an experiment in life writing and a verse drama designed to be read aloud.
Vital Stream takes the form of a long sonnet sequence, revisiting six extraordinary months in …
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Richard Holmes & Robert O’Neill: I am Soldier
I am Soldier brings together the profiles of sixty soldiers who have fought over the past 2, 500 years.These vivid accounts graphically depict the role of the soldier in battle often using the …
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Tim Dee: Ground Work
The essential and defining new collection of the best British nature writing Tim Dee has brought together a wonderous array of talent for this life-affirming, often magical anthology Observer We are …
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David Kenyon: Horsemen in No Man’s Land
An in-depth look at the contributions of the British cavalry during World War I. Of what use was the British cavalry during the years of trench warfare on the Western Front? On a static battlefield …
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Richard Holmes: La edad de los prodigios
La crónica torrencial y apasionada de una época en que los poetas miraban a las estrellas y los científicos soñaban con cambiar el mundo. Una época de descubrimientos asombrosos, viajes iniciáticos a …
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Richard Holmes: Huellas
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 …
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T. A. Heathcote: Mutiny & Insurgency in India, 1857-58
A vivid account of the bloody rebellion against colonial rule that raged through Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1857, a mutiny against the British East India Company broke …
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C. C. H. Brazier: XD Operations
X D Operations is the first account of the thrilling operations by the Kent Fortress Royal Engineers, a small Territorial Army Unit given the largest demolition program ever undertaken by the Royal …
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Michael Lowry: Fighting Through to Kohima
Lt. Col. Michael Lowry MC MBE, was awarded the Military Cross for his role in the desperate defensive action at Kohima, rated the worst of the campaign in Burma. After joining up in 1939 with the …
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Clive Harris & Julian Whippy: Greater Game
From the athletic fields to the fields of battle—these great sportsmen gave their all and sacrificed their lives for their countries in World War I. As the First World War swept across …
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Christopher L. Scott: Battles of Newbury
In 1643 and again in 1644 the forces of King Charles I and Parliament clashed at Newbury in a bloody fight. Each time the fate of the country hung in the balance. Chris Scott retells the story of …
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Jack Sheldon: German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916
This groundbreaking WWI history presents a detailed narrative of German Army operations from the start of the war to the 1st Battle of the Somme. A renowned expert on the German Army during the First …
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Michael Lowry: Fighting Through to Kohima
A decorated British officer’s wrenching and inspiring firsthand account of the worst battle of the Burma campaign. Lt. Col. Michael Lowry MC MBE, was awarded the Military Cross for his …
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Bill Bellamy: Troop Leader
Bill Bellamy was a young officer in the 8th King's Royal Irish Hussars from 1943 to 1955. He served in 7th Armoured Division in the North West Europe campaign, landing in Normandy on D+3, fought …
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Richard Holmes: The Ratters Of Lightning Ridge
Australia is unique in that it is the home of 95% of the world’s known black opal reserves, all buried beneath the dry Outback soil in a small area of New South Wales known as Lightning Ridge. Under …
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Richard Holmes & Randy Hughes: Diamonds of the Never Never
The Never Never is the name of a vast, remote area of the Australian Outback, as described in Barroft Boake’s poem:
‘Where the Dead Men Lie’:
Out on the wastes of the Never Never –
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Jack Sheldon: German Army on the Somme, 1914-1916
This groundbreaking WWI history presents a detailed narrative of German Army operations from the start of the war to the 1st Battle of the Somme. A renowned expert on the German Army during the First …
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Samuel Coleridge: Selected Poetry
Living in a revolutionary age, Coleridge’s poetry was written in a spirit of moral and emotional inquiry into the absolutes of the human condition. He is best known for his visionary poetry (‘Kubla …
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George Ashurst: MY BIT
George Ashurst served with the Lancashire Fusiliers, taking part in First Ypres, Gallipoli and the Somme, and enduring months of trench warfare on the Western Front, making numerous grim and …
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Richard Holmes & Imperial War Museum: D-Day Remembered
80th ANNIVERSARY EDITIONProduced in collaboration with Imperial War Museums Relive the day that changed the course of history. On 6 June 1944, D-Day marked the beginning of a campaign that involved …
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T. A. Heathcote: Mutiny & Insurgency in India, 1857-58
A vivid account of the bloody rebellion against colonial rule that raged through Northern India in the mid-nineteenth century. In 1857, a mutiny against the British East India Company broke …
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Phillip W. Blood: Hitler’s Bandit Hunters
In August 1942, Hitler directed all German state institutions to assist Heinrich Himmler, the chief of the SS and the German police, in eradicating armed resistance in the newly occupied territories …
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Richard Holmes & Robert O’Neill: I am Soldier
I am Soldier brings together the profiles of sixty soldiers who have fought over the past 2, 500 years.These vivid accounts graphically depict the role of the soldier in battle often using the …
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