Robinson imprint: 711 books
The World's 100 Weirdest Museums
From the Moist Towelette Museum in Michigan to the Museum of Broken Relationships in Zagreb
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
When we think of the world's great museums, we tend to think of the Louvre, the Guggenheim or the Victoria and Albert. We do not immediately think of the Dog Collar Museum, the Kansas Barbed Wire Museum, the Museum of Broken Relationships or Barney Smith's Toilet Seat Art Museum. Yet scattered across...
by Michael Paterson
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2017
The character of the last Tsar, Nicholas II (1868-1918) is crucial to understanding the overthrow of tsarist Russia, the most significant event in Russian history. Nicholas became Tsar at the age of 26. Though a conscientious man who was passionate in his devotion to his country, he was weak, sentimental,...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
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 of the war against Hitler, it...
The Mammoth Book of Covert Ops
True Stories of Covert Military Operations, from the Bay of Pigs to the Death of Osama bin Laden
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
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 a light on the 'shadow...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
From the start of the 20th century to the most recent major offensives, here are fifty accounts of the battles that made the modern world, described in superb detail by historians and writers including John Keegan, Alan Clark, John Strawson, Charles Mey, John Pimlott, and John Laffin.
All the...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
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...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
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...
Voices From the Napoleonic Wars
From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2015
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...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
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...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
In his account of World War II, historian Jon Lewis has selected 300 first-hand accounts, from Heinz Guderian rolling his panzer tank into Poland to VJ Day in London and New York. More than a eyewitness chronicle, this collection gives the reader an insight into how the repercussions from the war...
The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys
32 eye-witness accounts of adventure in the Antarctic
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
The very best writing on the Antarctic, from James Cook's eighteenth-century assertion that 'no man will ever venture further than I have done' to Lynne Cox's description of her epic, icy swim in the twenty-first century - 32 first-hand accounts of men and women challenging one of the Earth's last...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
Alien Abduction
Some 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 51
It is rumoured that Area 51 houses the UFO disc found at Roswell, as well as other...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Dive in. Death is only a breath away&
Encounter great white sharks, the stricken Kursk submarine, gold salvagers, sponge divers, giant squid, the wreck of the Titanic, Navy frogmen, and bathyscopes in record-breaking descents in The Mammoth Book of the Deep. These riveting accounts range...
by Jon E. Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2011
Step 1: Turn off the TV, the PC, the PS3, the Wii...
Step 2: Open up The Mammoth Book of Boy's Own Stuff and get into boyhood like it's meant to be ...
A guide to life, the universe and pretty much everything The Mammoth Book of Boy's Own Stuff is full of fun as well as important facts on how...