Including rare material from the Imperial War Museums archive, this graphic account of the planning and execution of the D-Day landings and campaign commemorates the 80th anniversary of this "Day…

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Edward Holmes, a schoolfellow of Keats, provides the first complete account of Mozart, based upon Mozart’s own letters and memoirs. In this biography, written long before the significance of Mozart’s…

Published in 1845 as the first adequate account of Mozart to appear in English, Holmes’ biography also was the first to be based upon Mozart’s letters and the memoirs written…

The Chartulary of St. John of Pontefract V2 is a historical book written by Richard Holmes and published in 1902. The book is a collection of documents and records that…

De Gaulle called it a ‘fatal avenue’ - that broad sweep of low-lying country stretching north east of Paris. Over the centuries, invading armies have swept back and forth over…

When the Ulster Scots arrived in New Hampshire in 1719, there were no roads in Derry (then called Nutfield). Led by the Reverend James McGregor, the Moses of the Scotch-Irish…

This detailed two-volume chartulary of the Cluniac priory of St John of Pontefract, is a valuable resource for Yorkshire history in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. Compiled in the mid-thirteenth…