The Mammoth Book Of True War Stories

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Robinson Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781845291488
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True War Stories written by Jon Lewis and published by Robinson Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heroism and horror are the keynotes of this gripping new collection of war writing. Includes analyses by celebrated historians, letters home by ordinary GI's, high-adrenalin accounts by front-line combatants and memorable reportage by top war correspondents.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780786715336
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True War Stories written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2005-03-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of sixty stories from the front lines of war includes accounts from Ernest Hemingway on the Spanish Civil War, Tim O'Brien on the War in Vietnam, and John Reed on the Mexican Revolution, among others. Original.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780756758721
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of True War Stories written by Jon E. Lewis and published by . This book was released on 1999-07-01 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gripping accounts of real-life horror and heroism from the history of human conflict. The 50 stories range in time from the Ancient Greeks to Operation Desert Storm; from the Crusades to Vietnam; from the Battle of Trafalgar to the dropping of the atomic bomb. They reveal the faces of war -- heroism, savagery, excitement and terror, on land, sea and in the air. Many are written by the greatest chroniclers of conflict: Thucydides on the wars between the Greek City States; John Reed on The Russian Revol.; Robert Graves on WW1; George Orwell on The Spanish Civil War; Ernest Hemingway on the D-Day Landings; Michael Herr on Vietnam; and John Simpson on the bombing of Baghdad.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1849011656
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2009-06-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Assassination of JFK, 9/11, the Da Vinci Code, The Death of Diana, Men in Black, Pearl Harbor, The Illuminati, Protocols of Zion,Hess, The Bilderberg Group, New World Order, ElvisFluoridization, Martin Luther King's murder, Opus Dei, The Gemstone Files, John Paul I, Dead Sea Scrolls, Lockerbie bombing, Black helicopters... In other words everything 'they' never wanted you to know and were afraid you might ask! Jon E. Lewis explores the 100 most terrifying cover-ups of all time, from the invention of Jesus' divinity (pace the Da Vinci Code) to Bush's and Blair's real agenda in invading Iraq. Entertainingly written and closely documented, the book provides each cover-up with a plausibility rating. Uncover why the Titanic sank, ponder the sinister Vatican/Mafia network that plotted the assassination of liberal John Paul, find out why NASA 'lost' its files on Mars, read why no-one enters Area 51, and consider why medical supplies were already on site at Edgware Road before the 7/7 bombs detonated. Just because you are paranoid, it doesn't mean that they aren't out to conspire against you.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780339186
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Combat written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2013-03-07 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Battle of the Bulge, Michael Herr at Khe Sanh, David Rohde's and Anthony Shadid's Pulitzer-winning accounts of Bosnia and Iraq respectively, Christina Lamb's famous account of being under fire from the Taliban, Robert Fisk on being attacked in Afghanistan, and Nicholas Tomalin's 'The General Goes Zapping Charlie Kong' (one of the inspirations for Apocalypse Now) among many other pieces of exceptional war reporting.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 9781854871800
Total Pages : 575 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Modern War Stories written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Constable. This book was released on 1993 with total page 575 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of fifty war stories of this century ranging in setting from the Boer War to Vietnam, from the sodden trenches of World War I to the Atlantic convoys of World War II. They reveal the intoxicating excitement of battle, the sorrow and the pity of war and even, sometimes its comedy.

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1780337868
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Covert Ops written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-01-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 that conduct clandestine operations and tells in full and fascinating detail the most daring missions of the last fifty years, from the the Sayeret Mat'Kal/Mossad 'Wrath of God' mission to assassinate those behind the Munich Olympic massacre of Olympic athletes to the Delta Force mission in Somalia using Black Hawk helicopters which went so tragically wrong.

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472117085
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits Volume 1 written by Mike Ashley and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2015-02-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Divided into three main sections, "The Ancient World", "The Middle Ages" and "Regency and Gaslight", The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits includes: · The Thief versus Rhampsinitus by Herodotus - probably the earliest detective story ever written. · The Locked Tomb Mystery, set in ancient Egypt, by Elizabeth Peters. · A new story by John Maddox Roberts featuring the young Roman detective Decius Metellus. · Robert van Gulik's ingenious He Came With the Rain featuring Judge Dee, a real-life character who lived inseventh-century China. · A new story by Peter Tremayne, set in seventh-century Ireland and featuring Sister Fidelma. · Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael story The Price of Light. · Paul Harding's The Confession of Brother Athelstan. · A classic locked-room mystery featuring Lillian de la Torre's popular detective Sam Johnson. · A story by Michael Harrison featuring August Dupin, the detective created by Edgar Allan Poe and the inspiration behind Sherlock Holmes. · John Dickson Carr's acclaimed The Gentleman from Paris. ...and many more!

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1472111818
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On the Front Line written by Jon E. Lewis and published by Constable. This book was released on 2013-06-20 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'. It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier and offers heart-stopping renditions of the very first gas attack; aerial dogfights above the trenches; the moment of going over the top. Told chronologically, from the first scrambles of 1914, the drudgery of the war of attrition once the trenches had been dug, to the final joy of Armistice.

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Robinson
ISBN 13 : 1472113659
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein written by Stephen Jones and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frankenstein... His very name conjures up images of plundered graves, secret laboratories, electrical experiments and reviving the dead. Within these pages, the maddest doctor of them all and his demented disciples once again delve into the Secret's of Life, as science fiction meets horror when the world's most famous monster lives again! The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein collects together for the first time twenty-three electrifying tales of cursed creation that are guaranteed to spark your interest - with classics from the pulp magazines by Robert Bloch and Manly Wade Wellman, modern masterpieces from Ramsey Campbell, Dennis Etchison, Karl Edward Wagner, David J. Schow and R. Chetwynd-Hayes, and original contributions by Graham Masterson, Basil Copper, John Brunner, Guy N. Smith, Kim Newman, Paul J. McAuley, Roberta Lannes, Michael Marshall Smith, Daniel Fox, Adrian Cole, Nancy Kilpatrick, Brian Mooney and Lisa Morton. Plus you're sure to get a charge from three complete novels: The Hound of Frankenstein by Peter Tremayne, The Dead End by David Case, and Mary W. Shelley's original masterpiece Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus. As an electrical storm rages overhead, the generators are charged up, and beneath the sheet a cold form awaits its miraculous rebirth. Now it's time to throw that switch and discover all that Man Was Never Meant to Know.