Jon E Lewis

Exerting a magnetic pull our imaginations, the poles have been the object of many gripping first-hand accounts of exploration -- literally, journeys to the ends of the earth

A passport to the last wildnernesses of Earth, this is the definitive collection of first-hand accounts of polar exploration -- 50 true stories of intrepid travel through the desolate and dangerous regions of both Arctic and Antarctic.

Beginning with Sir John Franklin's

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More than 100 first-hand accounts of frontline combat, ranging from the American Civil War to Afghanistan.

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 rock 'n' roll war, the first helicopter war with its doctrine of 'airmobility', and the first television war; it made napalm and the defoliant Agent Orange infamous, and gave us the New...