Battle (Eyewitness Books) - Hardcover

Holmes, Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679973338 ISBN 13: 9780679973331

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf, 1995

Synopsis

Photographed in full color. Discover the stories behind the most compelling skirmishes in history: how Alexander the Great was the first general to hire spies; how Napoleon's "shock" tactics won him an empire; and how the telegraph changed the course of the Civil War.  

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Review:

'The most beautiful and enticing information books ever seen.' Guardian 'The books that are more tempting than television.' Daily Telegraph

About the Author:

Richard Holmes is the author of The Age of Wonder, which was short-listed for the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction, won the Royal Society Prize for Science Books and the National Books Critics Circle Award, and was one of the New York Times Book Review's Best Books of the Year in 2009. Holmes's other books include This Long Pursuit, Footsteps, Sidetracks, Shelley: The Pursuit (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), Coleridge: Early Visions (winner of the 1989 Whitbread Book of the Year Award), Coleridge: Darker Reflections (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist), and Dr. Johnson & Mr. Savage (winner of the James Tait Black Prize). He was awarded the OBE in 1992. He lives in England.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0679973338
• ISBN 13: 9780679973331
• Binding: Hardcover