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Mammoth Book of Modern Battles by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
Category: Military | Series: Mammoth Books
From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin. All the major conf ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 32 Eye-witness Accounts of Adventure in the Antarctic by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
Category: Travel
This is the very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's la ...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
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