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A diverse collection of the best pieces ever written about boxing, complete with all the drama and excitement of a championship bout.Author: Jeff SilvermanPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Jul...

A first-ever compilation of the most courageous and stunning Coast Guard rescue stories. The Coast Guard is one of the nation's five military services, which exist to defend and preserve the United...

Author: Lamar UnderwoodPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Mar 01, 2020Number of Pages: 336 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 149303958XISBN-13: 9781493039586

At 10:35 in the morning of Thursday, December 17, 1903, man got his wings. On the sand dunes of Kitty Hawk, North Carolina, Orville Wright flew the motorized aircraft he and his brother Wilbur had...

Author: Jeff SilvermanPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Sep 01, 2023Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1493076558ISBN-13: 9781493076550

The perfect gift for anybody who has ever swung a club or marveled at the skill of touring professionals on television, THE GREATEST GOLF STORIES EVER TOLD is a compulsively readable collection of...

The most memorable horse tales ever written about great riders, great horses, and great equestrian adventures.Author: Steven D. PricePublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Apr 02, 2024Number of...

An unparalleled collection of the finest writings about hunting dogs.Author: Lamar UnderwoodPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: 1-Oct-21Number of Pages: 208 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The Greatest Military Mission Stories Ever Told is a recounting of the heroics of American forces' missions of all kinds.Author: Tom MccarthyPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Nov 01, 2022Number...

The Greatest Polar Exploration Stories Ever Told is a visceral, exciting, and stunning collection of twelve stories recounting the bravery, resoluteness, and strength of the men who willingly...

The Greatest Rowing Stories Ever Told collects articles and excerpts of classic rowing stories, from the inception of the sport on English waters in the eighteenth century, through the scandalous era...

A page-turning collection of the best sailing yarns, from Sir Ernest Shackleton and Joshua Slocum to William F. Buckley and Samuel Eliot Morrison.Author: Christopher CaswellPublisher: Lyons...

In The Greatest Sniper Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about snipers that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from books,...

In The Greatest Special Ops Stories Ever Told, editor Tom McCarthy has pulled together some of the finest writings about Special Operations that capture readers imaginations, meticulously culled from...

A collection of the greatest Special Ops stories NEVER told, pulled together by Larry Yadon, author of The Greatest Stories Never Told: Snipers, The Greatest Navy SEAL Stories Ever Told, and The...

A rich trove of 21 classic stories that reveal the true wonder of hunting for treasure.Author: Charles ElliottPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2022Number of Pages: 304 pagesLanguage:...

Author: Farley MowatPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Apr 01, 2001Number of Pages: 354 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1585742406ISBN-13: 9781585742400

By the author of Ashes Under Water (Lyons, 2014), here is one of the great untold stories of World War II. The Hidden Hindenburg finally catches up with a German conman who mislead the world about...

This book provides a slew of questions and in-depth answers concerning the traditions, rules, records, and history of hockey. From the early days of hockey to the hugely popular game seen today,...

Author: Ed GruverPublisher: Lyons PressPublication Date: Nov 15, 2021Number of Pages: 256 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1493058215ISBN-13: 9781493058211

A rare inside look at one of World War II's most dramatic and secret operations: a failed American naval exercise in 1944 in preparation for D-Day, with catastrophic results that were hidden for the...

In 1996, a twenty-three-year-old soldier in the British Army was flying over an African desert on a routine parachute jump. He had a lot to look forward to-a long career ahead of him in the army, a...

There have been many books on Theodore Roosevelt, but there are none that solely focus on the last years of his life. Racked by rheumatism, a ticking embolism, pathogens in his blood, a bad leg from...

The history of the famous vessel, from her design, build, and early racing career, through her lesser-known Civil War service and the never-before-told story of her final days on the ground at...

This book tells the complete, unvarnished story of the great Tom Seaver, that rarest of all American heroes, the New York Sports Icon. In a city that produces not mere mortals but sports gods, Seaver...

The Lives They Saved is the story in artifacts and oral histories of the 300,000 New Yorkers who were evacuated from Manhattan on 9/11...by boat. It is a story that has not yet been written about or...

The harrowing true tale of seven escaped Soviet prisoners who desperately marched out of Siberia through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.Author: Slavomir...

Friendly. Loyal. Affectionate. The list of wonderful traits possessed by America's #1 dog goes on and on. Given the Lab's good looks, trainability, and devotion, is it any wonder that there are...

In more than a century of American Thoroughbred racing, only thirteen horses have won the Triple Crown (the Kentucky Derby, the Preakness Stakes, and the Belmont Stakes, all won in the same season)...

Paris has long been the world's most popular destination and, in the view of many, the world's most beautiful city-- the product of two thousand years of continuous improvement and refinement.The...