Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book Of Everest
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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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2015-06-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Voices From the Napoleonic Wars
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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,...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2015-04-09

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book of the Vietnam War
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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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2015-02-26
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book Of Special Forces Training
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In this encyclopedic book, Lewis provides insights into the origins, training, tactics, weapons and achievements of special forces and special mission units throughout the world, focusing particularly on US and UK forces. He also looks at the codes that that bind the...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2015-01-22
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Télécharger le livre :  A Brief History of the First World War
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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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2014-05-15
Collection : Brief Histories
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Télécharger le livre :  Voices from D-Day
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The extraordinary and compelling story of the 6th of June, 1944, Operation Overlord 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,...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2014-04-03

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book of Men O' War
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Eighteen classic sea-faring tales by the best-loved writers of the genre, including Patrick O'Brian, C. S. Forester, Richard Woodman, Herman Melville and Frederick Marryat. Featuring favourite heroes such as Captain Jack Aubrey, Adam Hardy, Horatio Hornblower and...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2014-02-11
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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book of Covert Ops
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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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2014-01-16

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book of Westerns
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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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-07-04
Collection : Mammoth Books
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Télécharger le livre :  On the Front Line
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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...

Editeur : Constable
Parution : 2013-06-20

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book of Combat
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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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-03-07
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Télécharger le livre :  Spitfire: The Autobiography
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A celebration of the machine and the men who took to the skies in defence of Britain. It is also the dramatic illustration of a little understood truth: the Spitfire did more than win the Battle of Britain - it won the war. It was not Stalingrad which turned the corner...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2013-02-07

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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents Religious Cabals
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The Dead Sea ScrollsWhy was it so important these documents should not be seen? What ancient historical secret was so big that it had to be buried forever?FreemasonsIs this group of seemingly innocuous middle-aged men linked to almost every evil perpetuated? Are they...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents Terrorist Attacks and Clandestine Wars
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7/7Is the government covering up evidence of bungling by the intelligence services before the 7/7 bombings in London?9/11Did George Bush stage the 9/11 attack, or at least purposefully allow for it to occur so he could generate support to invade Afghanistan for reasons...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents Missing Persons and Mysterious Deaths
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This mammoth book brings together some of the modern world's most head-scratching deaths and disappearances, from the murder of rap royalty Tupac Shakur to Princess Diana's car crash in Paris, via the poisoning of former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko and JFK's...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents Aliens and Extra-Terrestrials
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Alien AbductionSome 2,740 US citizens claim to have been abducted by aliens each day. That's an incredible 2% of a population of 300 million. Surely statistically some of these cases must bear truths?Area 51It is rumoured that Area 51 houses the UFO disc found at...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents Political Conspiracies and Mind Control
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Everyone loves a good conspiracy. From the Jonestown massacre and the Philadelphia experiment to Nazi gold and the moon landing, there are umpteen conspiracy theories that even the least sceptical of us can recall and discuss at length. Entire libraries have been...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-07-26

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Télécharger le livre :  Mammoth Books presents Secret Organisations
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Black HelicoptersBlack helicopters are believed by some to be used for the surveillance of patriotic groups opposed to the takeover of the United States by foreign powers. Those sinister, silent,Black Hawk Down-style copters are hard to miss, but what exactly is their...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-07-19

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Télécharger le livre :  Voices from the Holocaust
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The testament to a tragedy.Voices fromThe 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...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-06-21

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Télécharger le livre :  The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - Everest
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Begining with the 1921 attempt on the summit of Everest through to the disasters of the 1990s, this work features 30 white-knuckle accounts of climbing endeavour on the world's highest mountain, with all the tragedy and triumph of humankind's striving for the top of the...

Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2012-03-01

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