Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Carroll & Graf Pub
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 31,61 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780786705894
Gathers accounts of America's Revolutionary and Civil wars, the Napoleonic Wars, the Boer War, both World Wars, and the Vietnam War
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 12,71 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780337302
In his account of World War II, historian Jon Lewis has selected 300 first-hand accounts, from Heinz Guderian rolling his panzer tank into Poland to VJ Day in London and New York. More than a eyewitness chronicle, this collection gives the reader an insight into how the repercussions from the war shaped our modern world, and how nothing from geo-politics to rock 'n' roll can really be understood without considering it.
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher :
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 34,39 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Military history
ISBN :
A poignant collection of the private thoughts, secret fears, & eyewitness accounts of soldiers under enemy fire. Vivid, moving, truthful, the letters & diaries selected for this volume by this historian afford intimate glimpses into the souls of ordinary men in extraordinary circumstances. Written from the battlefield, often from the front lines, the firsthand descriptions of military combat by common soldiers & junior officers lend to these never-before-published accounts a rawness of emotion & an immediacy that never make their way into history books. In its uniquely personal perspectives on military engagements ranging in time from the American Revolution & Napoleonic Wars through two world wars & the Vietnam conflict, this engrossing collection of testimony illuminates, too, the evolution of modern warfare. Whether written by an infantryman in the trenches of World War I or in camp by a relative Rommell or Napoleon, the personal eyewitness accounts in this remarkable book make poignantly intimate the military experience & the hell that is war.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : C & R Crime
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 27,71 MB
Release : 2014-02-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472114906
A new collection of magic and mayhem from fantasy's funniest, wackiest writers, including Harlan Ellison, Esther Friesner, Neil Gailman, Craig Shaw Gardner, Harry Harrison, Tom Hold and Julia Mandala.
Author : Lynn Picknett
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 28,61 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 1780337019
The ultimate guide to the history, background and meaning of whether UFOs really exist, plus associated phenomena such as alien abduction, crop circles and cattle mutilations. There is also a comprehensive overview of the many conspiracy theories which surround UFOs and abductions - from the craft as secret Nazi technology to weird CIA plots. Written by a ufologist with many years in the field, this exciting and highly provocative book at times reads like a thriller. What messages do UFOs hold for us and for the future of life on earth?
Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 34,67 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1780337000
Revised and expanded edition of Jon E. Lewis's ever-popular account of the American West. The book is at once a history and a compendium of western lore. It tells what life on the frontier was really like and gives a human portrait of the tough and sometimes violent way of life experienced by the early pioneers. The gunfighters and the cowboys, women, Indians and others, all have their part to play - and as well as the historical accounts there are intriguing anecdotes of everyday life on the plains, from how Montana cowboys warmed up their horses' bits, to the words of the Navajo medicine chants.
Author : Helen Watt (Archivist)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 27,72 MB
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 1843838966
Letters of seamen below the rank of commissioned officer which tell us a great deal about shipboard life and about seamen's attitudes.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Mammoth
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 38,90 MB
Release : 2014-04-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1472114930
A new and truly awesome collection of comic fantasy masterpieces! It isn't often you find a posse of Greek goddesses putting down insurrection among unruly classical mortals, stranded aliens escaping earth in a church converted into a rocket, or a light-fingered time-traveller attempting to steal the universe - but here they all are, in another selection of bizarre comic fantasies.
Author : Irene Taylor
Publisher : Canongate Us
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 38,88 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
From the creators of The Assassin's Cloak comes an anthology of powerful and sometimes surprising daily wartime diary entries from war fronts throughout history. The War Diaries brings together--in their own words--the stories of men and women who have endured life at its most intense and dangerous. By turns horrific and comic, the entries retain the candid intimacy that is the particular preserve of those who keep diaries. From Che Guevara, Virginia Woolf, and Davy Crockett to anonymous soldiers in the trenches, these poignant and intense missives capture the immediacy, horror, and pathos of wars that span the centuries. With a remarkable cross-section of contributors--Josef Goebbels, Anaïs Nin, Florence Nightingale, Samuel Pepys, and Salam Pax to name just a few--Irene and Alan Taylor bring unprecedented insight into what has been described as "the most exciting and dramatic thing in life" and "the universal perversion" war. This book is a unique gift for history enthusiasts everywhere.
Author : Alan Krell
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,70 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781861891440
In this book, Alan Krell investigates the place barbed wire holds in the social imagination.
