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The Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Military | Series: Mammoth Books
Over a hundred eyewitness accounts of the reality of combat from some of the finest writers of the last century and our own. Lucid, vivid, complex images of conflict, from Walt Whitman on the American Civil War to contemporary reporting from Afghanistan. The collection includes Martha Gellhorn on the Ba ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Conspiracies by Jon E. Lewis
Category: History | Series: Mammoth Books
Bang up to date with fresh cover-ups relating to Barack Obama, Michael Jackson and Afghanistan. This title features the 100 military, medical, religious, alien, intelligence, banking and historical cover-ups 'they' really don't want you to know about: The Military-Industrial Complex's fomentation of war ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Everest: From the First Attempts to Today, 40 First-Hand Accounts by Jon E. Lewis
Category: History
This selection of the very best writing on Everest begins with the first attempts and continues, via Mallory's failed bid and Hillary and Tenzing's triumph, to the disasters of recent years. It features 35 white-knuckle accounts of climbing on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and trium ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Westerns by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Fiction | Series: Mammoth Books
The Western, though a singularly American art form, is one of the great genres of world literature with a truly global readership. It is also durable despite being often unfairly maligned. Ever since James Fenimore Cooper transformed frontier yarns into a distinct literary form, the Western has followed ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of the Deep by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Science | Series: Mammoth Books
Dive in. Death is only a breath away...
The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War: Over 40 Definitive Accounts from America's Longest War by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Military
By 1969, following the French defeat at Dien Bien Phu, over 500,000 US troops were 'in country' in Vietnam. Before America's longest war had ended with the fall of Saigon in 1975, 450,000 Vietnamese had died, along with 36,000 Americans. The Vietnam War was the first rock 'n' roll war, the first helicop ...Show more
The New Rights of Man by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
Category: History
Why is the Western world unique in its double bull's-eye of political liberty and material plenty? How has it managed such an unparalleled achievement? Drawing on key documents and speeches from the last 4000 years, from the diverse fields of politics, law and philosophy, economics and religion, culture ...Show more
Voices from D-Day: Eyewitness Accounts from the Battles of Normandy by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Military
The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, and the Battle for Normandy is told here through first-hand testimonies from civilians and soldiers on both sides. It features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world's ...Show more
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Biography | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
The testament to a tragedy. "Voices from The Holocaust" follows the whole history of the 'Shoah' from Hitler's rise to power to the Nuremburg trials, but of course the exterminations and death camps of 'The Final Solution' take centre stage. It tells the story from the perspective of the people who were ...Show more
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars: From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 Eyewitness Accounts of a Soldier's Life in the Early 1800s by Jon E. Lewis
Category: Military
Voices from the Napoleonic Wars reveals in telling detail the harsh lives of soldiers at the turn of the eighteenth century and in the early years of the nineteenth - the poor food and brutal discipline they endured, along with the forced marches and bloody, hand-to-hand combat. Contemporaries were mesm ...Show more