by Richard Holmes · Harper Perennial · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780007225729
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«Marlborough: Britain’s Greatest General» is the biography of John Churchill by Richard Holmes, in paperback, 512 pages, English (Harper Perennial).
Richard Holmes narrates the life of John Churchill, Duke of Marlborough, from his modest origins to becoming the great British military figure of his era. It reviews his victories at Blenheim, Ramillies, Oudenarde and Malplaquet, his management of multinational armies and the political and economic controversies of a key figure in 18th-century Europe.
Richard Holmes was a British military historian, author of 'Redcoat' and 'Tommy'; the work was nominated for the Duke of Westminster Medal for Military Literature in 2009.
For readers interested in European military history, 18th-century biographies and British politics of the period.
Richard Gordon Heath Holmes, OBE, FRSL, FBA is a British author and academic best known for his biographical studies of major figures of British and French Romanticism.
