Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: What does it take, both physically and mentally, to join the world’s most respected—and feared—military units? Lewis looks at the origins, training, tactics, weapons, and achievements of regiments such as Britain’s SAS and Paratroopers, the US Navy SEALS, Delta Force, Army Rangers and Green Berets, Russia’s Spetsnaz, and the Israeli Special Forces, as well as the codes that bind their members together...read more

Product Description: No other conflict has so dramatically illustrated the senselessness of war and 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 and the supremacy of America...read more

Product Description: Voices From D-Day features classic accounts by soldiers such as Rommel and Bradley, together with frontline reports by some of the world’s finest authors and war correspondents, including Ernest Hemingway and Alan Melville. Published to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landings, highlights of this unique collection include the break-out from Omaha beach as told by the GI who led it, a French housewife’s story of what it was like to wake up to the invasion, German soldiers’ accounts of finding themselves facing the biggest seaborne invasion in history, a view from the command post by a member of Eisenhower’s staff, combat reports, diaries and letters of British veterans of all forces and services, and accounts of the follow-up battle for Normandy, one of the bloodiest struggles of the war...read more

Product Description: Real-life accounts of covert military operations, from raids into Laos to US Navy SEAL operations are under scrutiny in this anthology. Lewis shines a revealing light on the units that conduct clandestine operations and tells of the greatest missions of the last 50 years.

Product Description: Jon E. Lewis provides new material and commentary alongside Lewis Spence's work from 1914. The chapters cover the history of Native Americans, their language and lifestyle, their culture and religion, and more.

Product Description: This extensive collection presents vivid pieces of stunning, first-hand accounts from the front lines of some of the most historically significant battles of all time. A must-read for any military history buff, including Martha Gellhorn on the Battle of the Bulge, Michael Herr at Khe Sanh, John Pilger on the fall of Saigon, and more...read more

Product Description: Voices from the Holocaust follows the whole history of the “Shoah,” from Hitler’s rise to power to the Nuremburg trials. But while the beginning stages of the Holocaust are discussed in detail, it is, of course, the later years of the atrocities that are focused on; the exterminations and death camps of “The Final Solution” take center stage...read more

Product Description: 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...read more

Product Description: This collection of compelling eye-witness accounts showcases the very best writing on the Antarctic, from Ernest Shackleton on the loss of the Endurance to Lynne Cox on her epic, icy swim in 2002. Includes 35 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth’s last true wildernesses, encompassing both legendary tales of heroism and shocking contemporary accounts of the impact of global warming on the only undeveloped continent...read more

Product Description: This collection of classic tales comprises over thirty accounts of true-life adventure taken from contemporary memoirs, letters, and journals. They span the years from 1800 to the end of the twentieth century, in a period which can be termed the modern age of exploration...read more

Product Description: A stunning anthology of over 100 eyewitness accounts from the men of the SAS to tie in with the 70th anniversary of the founding of the regiment. SAS: Britain’s Elite Special Forces in Their Own Words is the story of the world’s most famous special forces regiment, written by the troopers and officers who really know it...read more

Product Description: The great events of Roman history are represented here, from the Battle of Mylae to the triumph of the Barbarians, and Rome’s social, cultural, and religious life in all its sophistication, luxury, and depravity. Using memoirs, letters, and official reports, inscriptions, and household accounts, this new collection draws from life sketches of the Roman way of war, empire building, civilization, and the pax romana...read more

Product Description: From Roman times to the twenty-first century, Londoners and visitors to the city have witnessed the extraordinary events and everyday life and character of this unique and influential city—from politics, culture, sports, religion, and reportage...read more

Product Description: An anthology featuring 28 eyewitness accounts of triumph and tragedy on the world’s greatest mountains.

Product Description: In the tradition of the bestselling Dangerous Book for Boys, here is everything a young man should know and possess to entertain himself. Includes survival skills, tricks, trivia, and the world's funniest joke-guaranteed to prevent boredom.

Product Description: Thirty true-life stories of endurance and adventure from our planet's final frontier.

A collection of first-hand accounts of polar exploration, this work includes 50 true stories of intrepid travel through the desolate and dangerous regions of both Arctic and Antarctic.

Product Description: This historical account of the American West shows what the American frontier was really like, and describes the men and women who explored and finally tamed America.