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  • Die Hard

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Upon its release, John McTiernan's Die Hard (1988)was met with immense commercial and critical success; breaking the $100 million mark at the box office in its first run, and resulting in four Academy Award nominations.Jon Lewis's study of the action classicclosely examines the film's novel and script adaptation, highlighting the influential role of producer Joel Silver. He delves into Silver's ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Road Trip to Nowhere

    Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture

    by Jon Lewis ...
    How a new generation of counterculture talent changed the landscape of Hollywood, the film industry, and celebrity culture.By 1967, the commercial and political impact on Hollywood of the sixties counterculture had become impossible to ignore. The studios were in bad shape, still contending with a generation-long box office slump and struggling to get young people into the habit of going to the ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • Audiobook

    Invasion

    by Jon S Lewis ...
    Narrated by John Haag ...
    Series Audiobook 1 - A C.H.A.O.S. Novel

    Unabridged

    8 hours 6 min

    Colt McAlister was having the summer of his life. He spent his days surfing and his nights playing guitar on the beach with friends. He even met a girl and got his first car. But everything changes when his parents are killed in a freak accident. He’s forced to leave his old life behind and move to Arizona with his grandfather. The only person he knows at the new high school is a childhood friend ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Voices From the Napoleonic Wars

    From Waterloo to Salamanca, 14 eyewitness accounts of a soldier's life in the early 1800s

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    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 were mesmerised by Napoleon, and with good reason: in 1812, he had an unprecedented million men and more ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Godfather

    by Jon Lewis ...
    Series series BFI Film Classics
    Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success – as a work of art, as a creative 'property' exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as a model for aspiring auteurist film-makers – changed Hollywood forever.Jon Lewis's study of The Godfather begins with a close look at the film's audacious visual style (the long, theatrical set ... Read more

    $13.69 USD

  • His Truth Is Marching On

    John Lewis and the Power of Hope

    by Jon Meacham, John Lewis ...
    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An intimate and revealing portrait of civil rights icon and longtime U.S. congressman John Lewis, linking his life to the painful quest for justice in America from the 1950s to the present—from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Soul of America“An extraordinary man who deserves our everlasting admiration and gratitude.”—The Washington PostONE OF THE WASHINGTON ... Read more

    Was $9.99 USD Now $8.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hollywood v. Hard Core

    How the Struggle Over Censorship Created the Modern Film Industry

    by Jon Lewis ...
    A tale of censorship and regulation at the heart of the modern film industryIn 1972, The Godfather and Deep Throat were the two most popular films in the country. One, a major Hollywood studio production, the other an independently made "skin flick." At that moment, Jon Lewis asserts, the fate of the American film industry hung in the balance.Spanning the 20th century, Hollywood v. Hard Core ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Covert Ops

    True Stories of Covert Military Operations, from the Bay of Pigs to the Death of Osama bin Laden

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 370 - Mammoth Books
    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 war' units that conduct clandestine operations and tells in full and fascinating detail the most daring ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • On the Front Line

    True World War I Stories

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    In 1930, the editor of Everyman Magazine requested entries for a new anthology of Great War accounts. The result was a revolutionary book unlike any other of the period; for as Malcolm Brown notes in his introduction 'I believe it might fairly be described as a rediscovered classic'.It was the very first collection to reveal the many dimensions of the war through the eyes of the ordinary soldier ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened in Britain

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 377 - Mammoth Books
    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 ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of How it Happened: World War II

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 379 - Mammoth Books
    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 shaped our modern world, and how nothing from geo-politics to rock 'n' roll can really be understood ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Mammoth Book of Antarctic Journeys

    32 eye-witness accounts of adventure in the Antarctic

    by Jon E. Lewis ...
    Series Book 366 - Mammoth Books
    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 true wildernesses.Here you will find both legendary tales of heroism and startling contemporary ... Read more

    $3.99 USD