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A Brief History of the First World War: Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914-18 by Jon E. Lewis
$14.99 AUD
Category: Military
Even 100 years on from the First World War it haunts us still. No other conflict has revealed so dramatically the senselessness of war, and none has shaped the modern world to the same extent, from its impact on the Russian Revolution and the rise of Hitler to the final break-up of the British Empire an ...Show more
Mammoth Book of Covert Ops: True Stories of Covert Military Operations, from the Bay of Pigs to the Death of Osama Bin Laden by Jon E. Lewis
$12.99 AUD
Category: Military | Series: Mammoth Books
Twenty true stories of covert military operations, from raids into Laos by elite unit MAC-V-SOG to cut the Ho Chi Minh trail during the Vietnam War to the US Navy SEAL 6 operation Neptune's Spear in Abbottabad which resulted in the death of Osama bin Laden. Lewis shines a light on the 'shadow war' units ...Show more
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys: 32 Eye-witness Accounts of Adventure in the Antarctic by Jon E. Lewis (Editor)
$12.99 AUD
Category: History
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 Mammoth Book of Combat: Reports from the Frontline by Jon E. Lewis
$12.99 AUD
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 Westerns by Jon E. Lewis
$12.99 AUD
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
Voices from the Holocaust by Jon E. Lewis
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | 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
$24.99 AUD
Category: History
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
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