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  • Voices from D-Day

    Eyewitness Accounts from the Battle for Normandy

    Edited by Jon E. Lewis ...
    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, ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Voices from the Holocaust

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    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 there, and were witnesses - on both sides - of the horror.While some of the eye-witnesses are well ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • London: the Autobiography

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    In London: The Autobiography the life of the capital is told, for the first time, by those who made it and saw it at first hand.From Roman times to the 21st century, Londoners and visitors to the city have recounted the extraordinary events, everyday life and character of this unique and influential city - from politics, culture, sport, religion, and reportage.This book brings to vivid life the ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD

  • SAS: The Autobiography

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    SAS: The Autobiography is the story of the world's most famous special forces regiment by those who truly know it - the troopers and officers themselves. From the dust of the wartime desert and raids on harboured Luftwaffe aircraft to sniping al-Qaeda in the far mountains of Afghanistan, SAS: The Autobiography takes the reader on a high adrenaline history of the regiment which simultaneously lifts ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • 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 ...
    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 mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • On the Front Line

    True World War I Stories

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • World War II: The Autobiography

    200 First-Hand Accounts from WWII

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    A remarkable series of over 200 eye-witness accounts taken from diaries, letters, speeches, interviews and memoirs of those who were there: pilots, sailors, generals, infantrymen, war correspondents and leaders.These include Spitfire pilot Richard Hillary's account of bailing out of his plane in the Battle of Britain; a German sailor's view of HMS Royal Oak being torpedoed at Scapa Flow; insights ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • Rome: The Autobiography

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considered histories of powerful men. It is found on inscriptions, in private memoirs and official reports from every corner of the Empire.Over 150 pieces are collected in this autobiography of Ancient Rome, from the written accounts of Caesars and slaves, ... Read more

    $6.99 CAD

  • A Brief History of the First World War

    Eyewitness Accounts of the War to End All Wars, 1914–18

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series series Brief Histories
    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 and the supremacy of America. These compelling eyewitness accounts - over 180 of them - of the War ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • The Mammoth Book of SAS and Special Forces

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 386 - Mammoth Books
    Here are thirty true and graphic accounts of the most heroic SAS and special-forces missions ever undertaken into the most dangerous place of all - behind enemy lines. Bang up to date, this unputdownable collection includes the most recent operations into Iraq in 2003, Afghanistan and Bosnia, and features the entire range of special forces from SAS, Commandos and Rangers to Navy SEALS and ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD

  • The Mammoth Book of Cover-Ups

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 371 - Mammoth Books
    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 ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - Everest

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 376 - Mammoth Books
    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 world, by those who know the "Death Zone" best - the climbers of Everest themselves. Yet this is more than a cherry-picking of ... Read more

    $3.99 CAD