Edward Richard Holmes , plus connu sous le nom de Richard Holmes , né le 29 mars 1946 et décédé le 30 avril 2011 , est un soldat et historien militaire britannique , particulièrement connu du fait de ses nombreuses apparitions à la télévision. Il a été professeur de sciences militaires et de sécurité à l'Université de Cranfield de 1995 à sa mort.
Œuvres
Bir Hacheim: Desert Citadel (1971) (ISBN 978-0-345-02405-3 )
The Little Field Marshal: A Life of Sir John French (1981) (ISBN 978-0-224-01575-2 )
Firing Line , (1985) (ISBN 978-0-224-02043-5 )
Acts of War: The Behaviour of Men in Battle , (1986) (ISBN 978-0-02-915020-7 )
Civil War battles in Cornwall, 1642 to 1646 (Mercia, 1989) (ISBN 0-948087-32-3 )
World Atlas of Warfare: Military Innovations That Changed the Course of History (ISBN 978-0-670-81967-6 )
Riding the Retreat: Mons to Marne: 1914 Revisited , (1995) (ISBN 978-0-224-03762-4 )
Battle , (1997) (ISBN 978-0-7513-6057-8 )
The Western Front , (1999) (ISBN 978-1-57500-147-0 )
World War II in Photographs , (2000) (ISBN 978-1-84222-073-3 )
Battlefields of the Second World War , (2001) (ISBN 978-0-563-53782-3 )
The First World War in Photographs , (2001) (ISBN 978-1-84222-319-2 )
Redcoat: The British Soldier in the Age of Horse and Musket , (2001) (ISBN 978-0-00-257097-8 )
Wellington: The Iron Duke , (2002) (ISBN 978-0-00-713748-0 )
The D-Day Experience: From the Invasion to the Liberation of Paris , (2004) (ISBN 978-1-84442-805-2 )
Tommy: The British Soldier on the Western Front , (2004) (ISBN 978-0-00-713751-0 )
In the Footsteps of Churchill , (2005) (ISBN 978-0-563-52176-1 )
The Napoleonic Wars Experience (2006) (ISBN 978-0-233-00198-2 )
Sahib: The British Soldier in India 1750–1914 , (2005) (ISBN 978-0-00-713753-4 )
Dusty Warriors: Modern Soldiers at War , (2006) (ISBN 978-0-00-721284-2 )
Battlefield. Decisive Conflicts in History , Oxford University Press , (2006) (ISBN 978-84-344-1335-1 )
The World at War: The Landmark Oral History from the Previously Unpublished Archives , Ebury Press , (2007) (ISBN 978-0-09-191751-7 )
Marlborough: England's Fragile Genius , (2008) (ISBN 978-0-00-722571-2 )
Soldiers: Army Lives and Loyalties from Redcoats to Dusty Warriors , (2011) (ISBN 978-0-00-722569-9 )