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The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes (27-Oct-2011) Paperback
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Richard Holmes
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Edward 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, 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 Field Marshal: Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of Northern France and Flanders (also published by Pimlico).
He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including ‘War Walks’, ‘The Western Front’ and ‘Battlefields’, and is famous for his hugely successful series ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ and ‘Rebels and Redcoats’.
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Edward 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, 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 Field Marshal: Sir John French, The Road to Sedan, Firing Line, The Second World War in Photographs and Fatal Avenue: A Traveller’s History of Northern France and Flanders (also published by Pimlico).
He was general editor of The Oxford Companion to Military History and has presented eight BBC TV series, including ‘War Walks’, ‘The Western Front’ and ‘Battlefields’, and is famous for his hugely successful series ‘Wellington: The Iron Duke’ and ‘Rebels and Redcoats’.
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April 10, 2026
Excellent book, one of my favourites.
A disproportionate amount of time in the latter half of the book seems to dwell on Humphrey Davy's personal life. This is a matter of opinion, as I am far more interested in the life and activity of the Herschel Family and Joseph Banks.
In general, an incredibly in depth and well through study of science in the Romantic period, with convincing arguments throughout of a narrative little told elsewhere - that there was a romantic period for the sciences within the broader Enlightenment Era.
A disproportionate amount of time in the latter half of the book seems to dwell on Humphrey Davy's personal life. This is a matter of opinion, as I am far more interested in the life and activity of the Herschel Family and Joseph Banks.
In general, an incredibly in depth and well through study of science in the Romantic period, with convincing arguments throughout of a narrative little told elsewhere - that there was a romantic period for the sciences within the broader Enlightenment Era.
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