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The Mammoth Book of How It Happened

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Robinson Publishing
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 13 : 9781845292652
Pages : 656 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (845 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of How It Happened PDF Format Full Free by Jon E. Lewis and published by Robinson Publishing. This book was released on 2006 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eyewitness accounts of great historical moments from 2700 BC to AD 2005 Here are the outstanding events of human history in the words of those who saw them, from the earliest times to the present day. Fully updated and expanded, this new edition of the bestselling Mammoth title presents a unique shapshot view of history. The accounts cover the entire spectrum of human experience - political history, war, revolution, disaster, art, exploration, science and sport... They range in time from 9-11, the exploration of Mars and the Asian Tsunami, through the Gunpowder Plot and the discovery of America, to the eruption of Vesuvius, the death of Alexander the Great and Sennacherib sacking Babylon. Compiled from memoirs, diaries, letters, journalistic reports and other first-hand documents, this unique anthology allows us to relive the greatest moments of the past in vivid detail.

The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - Everest

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 13 : 1780337272
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (337 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - Everest PDF Format Full Free by Jon E. Lewis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 great true and exhilarating memoirs of Everest. Included are the history of the conquest of Everest, and all the natural and cruel beauty of Chomolungma "The Mother Goddess of the World".

The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - America

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 13 : 1780337264
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (337 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of How it Happened - America PDF Format Full Free by Jon E. Lewis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hear the cannon roar at Valley Forge with George Washington, dance the night away at a Chicago Speakeasy during Prohibition, take a ringside seat for the gunfight at the OK Corral, ride Apollo 11 to the moon, hear Martin Luther King's 'I Have a Dream' speech, join with Harry S. Truman on the A-bomb deliberations, land with John Smith at Virginia, ride against Custer at Little Horn, get on down to Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock, march to 'The Grapes of Wrath' at Shiloh, work your fingers to the bone at Henry Ford's car plant . . . this is America - the beautiful, the powerful, the tragic, the glorious. The Mammoth Book of How It Happened: America is the story of the making of America in the very words of those who were there, from its 'discovery' by Christopher Columbus to George W. Bush's War Against Terrorism. Composed of firsthand eye-witness accounts of the seminal moments in US history, this is an intimate, revealing, insightful guide to the greatest nation on earth. In five chronological sections, this volume tracks the main phases of American history: Discovery, including the exploration and settlement of America; Independence, the Revolution and wars against British rule; Destiny, covering expansion into the West and the split between North and South; Frontier, including the settlement of the American West and the Indian Wars; and finally Century, the 100 years that saw America becoming a superpower on the world's political stage.

The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-08-04
ISBN 13 : 1780332726
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (332 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Fighter Pilots PDF Format Full Free by Jon E. Lewis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-08-04 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From yesteryear's flying aces to today's top guns... Veteran anthologist Jon E. Lewis has assembled firsthand accounts from all the great military campaigns of aerial warfare, including World Wars I and II, the Spanish Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, the Falklands, the Gulf, and Bosnia. Page after exciting page of this singular collection brings into vivid play the exploits of such legendary pilots as Manfred von Richtofen, Eddie Rickenbacker, Douglas Bader, and Johnnie Johnson; the Luftwaffe World War II aces Heinz Knoke, Gerd Barkhorn, and Johannes Steinhoff; and forty other brave airmen from America, Britain, France, Japan, Russia, and North Korea. Here, too, are the planes in which these pilots flew into modern historythe Spitfire, the Mustang, the Me 109, the Zero, the F-16, the MiG, and the Harrier. Together with the death-defying drama of combat, this volume vividly captures other facets of the fighter pilot's life, including the perils of bailing out in enemy territory, the daily horrors of internment in a Japanese POW camp, and a harrowing account of being shot down in a blazing Spitfire. The true-life aerial combat adventures in this stirring collection provide a vicarious, adrenaline-fueled expedition into the shell-blasted skies of war in the twentieth century.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 13 : 1780337140
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (337 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 11 PDF Format Full Free by Stephen Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As usual, acclaimed horror anthologist Stephen Jones has chosen the finest short stories and novellas of supernatural and psychological fiction. With the most comprehensive review of the year, useful contact lists, and a fascinating necrology as a bonus, this is one book that every horror fan must have.

The Mammoth Book of 20th Century SF II

Author : David G. Hartwell
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2011-09-01
ISBN 13 : 1780334184
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (334 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of 20th Century SF II PDF Format Full Free by David G. Hartwell and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-09-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, covering the period from the 1890s to the future, includes stories from founding fathers of the field like H. G. Wells and C. S. Lewis; beloved mainstays of the genre, such as Philip Jose Farmer, Roger Zelazny and Jack Vance; notable female writers, including Nancy Kress, and authors like Bruce Sterling, William Gibson and James Morrow, who have hit their stride in the last two decades. Also featured are those widely recognised outside the genre, the celebrated writing of E. M. Forster and Michael Shaara, as well as translations of foreign writers' formative work including that of Wolfgang Jeschke and Dino Buzzati.

The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories

Author : Ian Watson
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-02-25
ISBN 13 : 1849014280
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (14 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Alternate Histories PDF Format Full Free by Ian Watson and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every short story in this wonderfully varied collection has one thing in common: each features some alteration in history, some divergence from historical reality, which results in a world very different from the one we know today. As well as original stories specially commissioned from bestselling writers such as James Morrow, Stephen Baxter and Ken MacLeod, there are genre classics such as Kim Stanley Robinson's story of how World War II atomic bomber the Enola Gay, having crashed on a training flight, is replaced by the Lucky Strike with profoundly different consequences. Praise for the editors: 'Mr Watson wreaks havoc with what is accepted - and acceptable.' The Times 'One of Britain's consistently finest science fiction writers.' New Scientist

The Mammoth Book of how it Happened

Author : Jon Lewis
Publisher : Constable & Robinson
Release Date : 2003
ISBN 13 : 9781841196404
Pages : 519 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (841 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of how it Happened PDF Format Full Free by Jon Lewis and published by Constable & Robinson. This book was released on 2003 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using over 150 eyewitness documents, this anthology reconstructs Ancient Egyptian history from the unification of the kingdoms in 3150 BCE to the conquest by Rome in 30 BCE. The book paints a vivid picture of the way of life of the Ancient Egyptians.

The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 13 : 1780337299
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (337 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War I PDF Format Full Free by Jon E. Lewis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The spectre of the Great War still haunts us. No other conflict so dramatically illustrates the waste of life, and the slaughter of innocents, as that of 1914-18. And none has so dramatically shaped the modern world: the Russian Revolution, the rise of Hitler, the break-up of Empire, the supremacy of America and World War II all stem from the four years of the 'war to end all wars'. Here is the eye-witness chronicle of that war, from the trenches of Flanders to the staff rooms of the Imperial Germany Army, from T. E. Lawrence in the desert to the 'Red Baron' in the air, from Land Girls in England to German U-boat crews in the Atlantic, it leaves nothing out. And if all the horror of the war fought by the Tommies in the trenches is captured, so too are the machinations of the 'top brass' and politicians.

The Mammoth Book of How it Happened in Britain

Author : Jon E. Lewis
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2012-03-01
ISBN 13 : 1780337280
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (337 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of How it Happened in Britain PDF Format Full Free by Jon E. Lewis and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Julius Caesar's arrival in 55bc to the dawn of the third millennium, here are 300 accounts of exciting and important moments from first hand sources. Featuring snapshots of wartime, political and social unrest, natural disasters, and great individual achievements, plus vignettes of social life - from cockfighting in Tudor inns to a Victorian Sunday in the country. Includes the Battle of Hastings in 1066; the execution in 1649 of Charles I; an account of the Great Fire of London, 1666; the death of Lord Nelson at Trafalgar, 1805; Wellington's triumph at Waterloo, 1815; the 1912 Antarctic Expedition: the last letters of Captain Scott; Frank Richard's 1914 account of Christmas in the trenches; the Battle of Britain in 1940; England winning the World Cup, 1966; and the death of the Princess of Wales in 1997 - and much more.

The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga

Author : Ilya
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Release Date : 2006-12-04
ISBN 13 :
Pages : 574 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga PDF Format Full Free by Ilya and published by Running PressBook Pub. This book was released on 2006-12-04 with total page 574 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A full-length anthology of manga tales by some of the genre's most promising young writers features fifteen unabridged new stories and includes contributions by such names as Andi Watson, Craig Conlan, and Michiru Morikawa. Original.

The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-07-04
ISBN 13 : 1472100263
Pages : 544 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (1 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF PDF Format Full Free by Mike Ashley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This thought-provoking collection not only takes us into the past and the future, but also explores what might happen if we attempt to manipulate time to our own advantage. These stories show what happen once you start to meddle with time and the paradoxes that might arise. It also raises questions about whether we understand time, and how we perceive it. Once we move outside the present day, can we ever return or do we move into an alternate world? What happens if our meddling with Nature leads to time flowing backwards, or slowing down or stopping all together? Or if we get trapped in a constant loop from which we can never escape. Is the past and future immutable or will we ever be able to escape the inevitable? These are just some of the questions that are raised in these challenging, exciting and sometimes amusing stories by Kage Baker, Simon Clark, Fritz Leiber, Christopher Priest, Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Robert Silverberg, Michael Swanwick, John Varley and many others.

The Mammoth Book Best International Crime

Author : Maxim Jakubowski
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-08-27
ISBN 13 : 1849012490
Pages : 608 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (12 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book Best International Crime PDF Format Full Free by Maxim Jakubowski and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-08-27 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading anthologist Maxim Jakubowski presents the very best in crime writing from around the world - 40 short stories from an all-star line-up of international writers. They cover the full spectrum of crime fiction, from noir and thrillers, to whodunnits and procedurals, with settings that include Italy, Cuba, Scandinavia, Russia, USA, Japan, Germany, Mexico, France, Italy, Spain and the UK. Among the writers presented are: Ian Rankin, bestselling author of compelling, cerebral crime fiction set in Edinburgh, featuring the much-loved Inspector Rebus. John Mortimer, the English barrister and writer, famous for his much-loved fictional character Horace Rumpole of the Bailey. Boris Akunin, whose eccentric characters and surprising, inventive plots have earned him a reputation as one of the finest contemporary writers of classic crime fiction. Mark Billingham, whose series of taut procedural thrillers featuring London policeman Tom Thorne have won him numerous fans. Giorgio Faletti, author of the 5 million copy seller I Kill. Jo Nesbo, a hugely succesful Norwegian writer with a series featuring Detective Harry Hole, set in Oslo. Jeffrey Deaver, one of the very best US crime writers. His psychological thrillers feautring Lincoln Rhyme have been bestsellers around the world. Ruth Rendell, one of the UK's most respected crime writers.

The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance

Author : Trisha Telep
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-01-17
ISBN 13 : 178033043X
Pages : 496 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (33 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Futuristic Romance PDF Format Full Free by Trisha Telep and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Love will find a way - 19 fantastic future-set romances. The good news is, in the future there will be no shortage of romance. On space ships, on newly-colonized planets or on a barely recognizable Earth, life forms, whether human, alien or something in between, will find their way to love. As giant corporations grasp new opportunities for profit and future armies clash, both in deep space and 'dirtside', former romantic partners try to put the past behind them and time-travelling rebels set out to romance the past. These science fiction stories of future love and lust - by Marcella Burnard, Bianca d'Arc, Jess Granger, Linnea Sinclair, C. L. Wilson and many more - are brimming with passion and humour. So, even though in space no one can hear you scream, they might just be able to hear you laugh.

The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2013-11-28
ISBN 13 : 1472114868
Pages : 512 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (114 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction PDF Format Full Free by Mike Ashley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2013-11-28 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The art of writing great science fiction is that it challenges the imagination, pushing it to extreme limits and in this anthology, selecting some of the best modern science fiction from the last fifty years, twenty leading authors of the genre ask the question 'What if...?' and then give their own very personal views of the changes and surprises which may befall humanity in the centuries to come. In Ulla, Ulla Eric Brown recounts the first manned Martian expedition and discovers that H. G. Wells may have been right after all. In The Infinite Assassin Greg Egan polices the dimensions, seeking those who are taking over their alternate selves. Geoffrey A. Landis takes us into the depths of a black hole in Approaching Perimelasma. Is the ultimate Utopia heaven or hell? Robert Sheckley finds out in the classic A Ticket to Tranai. These and other stories by James White, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Reed, H. Beam Piper and H. Chandler Elliot make this one of the most entertaining and thought-provoking science fiction anthologies in lightyears.

The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2010-03-25
ISBN 13 : 1849014388
Pages : 696 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (14 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of the Best of Best New Horror PDF Format Full Free by Stephen Jones and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For twenty years The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror has been recognized as the world's foremost annual showcase of horror and dark fantasy fiction. Now, with one story from each year in which it has been published, from 1989 to 2008, representing the work of dozens of authors, many of them acknowledged as the foremost practitioners of the genre, multi-award-winning editor Stephen Jones looks back on two decades of superb writing to bring readers the ultimate horror fiction anthology. With names such as Ramsey Campbell, Christopher Fowler, Neil Gaiman, Michael Marshall Smith, Paul J. McAuley and Lisa Tuttle, this collection represents a true landmark in horror fiction publishing. Praise for Stephen Jones: 'Horror's last maverick.' - Christopher Fowler 'Stephen Jones . . . has a better sense of the genre than almost anyone in this country.'- Lisa Tuttle, The Times Books 'The best horror anthologist in the business is, of course, Stephen Jones.' - Roz Kavaney, Time Out 'Edited by Stephen Jones, a member of that tiny band of anthologists whose work is so reliably good that you automatically reach out and grab hold of any new volume spotted if you are wise.'- Gahan Wilson, Realms of Fantasy 'One of the genre's most enthusiastic cheerleaders.' - Publishers Weekly 'Horror readers owe Stephen Jones a lot.' - Rue Morgue 'Edited by the prolific and reliable Stephen Jones.' - SFX Magazine 'Jones performs his usual exemplary job.' - Starlog (UK) 'A new horror anthology from Stephen Jones is always an event' - Dennis Etchison

The Mammoth Book of the Mafia

Author : Nigel Cawthorne
Publisher : Hachette UK
Release Date : 2009-06-25
ISBN 13 : 1849012563
Pages : 480 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (12 downloads)

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Download The Mammoth Book of the Mafia PDF Format Full Free by Nigel Cawthorne and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'Ndrangheta Images of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality? Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi, infiltrators and award-winning writers. It contains tell-all accounts by the likes of: Richard 'The Iceman' Kuklinski, the contract killer who claimed to have murdered over 200 people in a career lasting 43 years. Frankie Saggio, who 'freelanced' for all five of New York's Mafia families, narrowly escaping assassination before being busted for a major scam. Joey Black, the Hitman, chillingly professional murderer of 38 victims and regarded by many as the 'original Soprano'. Albert DeMeo, the son of a gangster, who later became a lawyer. 'Donnie Brasco', real name Joseph Pistone, the FBI agent, who worked undercover in the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York for six years. Tommaso Buscetta, the Sicilian mafioso, the first pentito, or informant, of real significance to break omertà. The two judges with whom he worked, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, were both later killed by the Mafia. This is the reality of the world of men you wouldn't want to cross.