The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History to 2000 (Mammoth Books)
by By Lewis, Jon E. (EDT)
Category: History , World

In this new expanded edition of The Mammoth Book of Eyewitness History 2000, Jon E. Lewis has created a unique snapshot view of history from 2700 BC right up to the millennium. Compiled from memoirs, diaries, letters, journalistic reports and other first-hand documents, this book allows us to relive the greatest and most far-reaching moments, and to experience the events of everyday life in other times.Included here are accounts of social and political history (Guy Fawkes' confession to the Gunpowder Plot, President Clinton's impeachment trial), art (Raffaello's attempt to prevent Michelangelo from painting the Sistine Chapel), war (from Sennacherib sacking Babylon to the recent conflict in East Timor), revolution (the wild revenge of Parisian women after the fall of the Commune in 1871), exploration (the discovery of America and the moon landing), sport (the 1966 World Cup), science (Sir Isaac Newton, infant prodigy) and of course disaster (Pliny witnesses the terrible eruption of Vesuvius) and days of excitement (the discovery of Tutankhamen's tomb in 1923) and this year's phenomenon, the success of the merchandising behind Star Wars: The Phantom Menace). From great events to fascinating vignettes, much of this material is unavailable elsewhere.