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Richard Holmes is 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 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 is 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'.
The retreat of the British Expeditionary Force from Mons in August 1914 marked one of the two occasions on which we nearly lost the First World War through a military defeat in the field... Richard Holmes, has had the idea of riding with four friends along the route of the retreat, from Mons to the Marne where the German advance was stopped at the start of September. His ride, like the campaign of August 1914, took place in scorching weather and he passed through still recognisable battlefields and cemeteries of distracting sadness. The author tells two stories in parallel: that of his own journey and a first-rate account of what happened eighty years before. -- Max Egremont Evening Standard A book that amuses yet haunts, brisk at one moment, melancholy the next... an effortless blend of past and present. -- Michael Sheridan Independent on Sunday Succeeds admirably in both parts: the travelogue weaves in and out, giving welcome relief from the sweat and fear, the sleeplessness, the fearful wounds and the killing... Masterly. -- The Marquess Of Anglesey Daily Telegraph
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