Richard Holmes

80th ANNIVERSARY EDITION Produced 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 more than a million men and helped seal the fate of Hitler's Germany. Written by esteemed military historian Richard Holmes and including rare documents, diaries, and secret memos...

LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE A dazzling new biography of young Tennyson by the prize-winning, bestselling author of The Age of Wonder. Alfred Lord Tennyson is now remembered—if he is remembered at all—as the gloomily bearded Poet Laureate, author of such clanking Victorian works as ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’, and the mournful author of the lugubrious elegy...

A phenomenal oral history of World War II using interviews from the classic The World at War TV series. The World at War is the definitive television work on the Second World War. It set out to tell the story of the war through the testimony of key participants— from civilians to ordinary soldiers, from statesmen to generals. First broadcast...