Richard  Holmes





Richard Holmes

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March 29, 1946 in The United Kingdom

died
April 30, 2011

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Richard Holmes was Professor of Military and Security Studies at Cranfield University and the Royal Military College of Science. He was educated at Cambridge, Northern Illinois, and Reading Universities, and carried out his doctoral research on the French army of the Second Empire. For many years he taught military history at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.

A celebrated military historian, Richard Holmes is the author of the best-selling and widely acclaimed Tommy and Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket. His dozen other books include Dusty Warriors, Sahib, The Western Front, The Little F...more


Average rating: 3.96 · 558 ratings · 61 reviews · 52 distinct works
Redcoat: The British Soldie...
3.96 of 5 stars 396 avg rating — 82 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions
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Tommy: The British Soldier ...
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Wellington: The Iron Duke
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Acts of War: Behavior of Me...
3.71 of 5 stars 371 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1986 — 4 editions
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Sahib: The British Soldier ...
3.81 of 5 stars 381 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions
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In the Footsteps of Churchill
3.22 of 5 stars 322 avg rating — 23 ratings4 editions
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The D-Day Experience: From ...
4.67 of 5 stars 467 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 1994 — 5 editions
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Marlborough: England's Frag...
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World War II in Photographs
4.0 of 5 stars 400 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2000 — 5 editions
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