The Mammoth Book of Eye-Witness History

Compiled from memoirs, diaries, letters, and journalism — with many selections unavailable elsewhere — The Mammoth Book of Eye-Witness History vividly records the outstanding events of human history in the words of those who were there. From the classic writers Herodotus and Plutarch to moderns Ernest Hemingway; Tom Wolfe, and Primo Levi, readers will relive great events: the disasters of Pompeii and the Titanic, assassinations from Julius Caesar to JFK, catastrophes like the eruption of Vesuvius and the Irish Potato Famine, and such momentous achievements as Newton’s discovery of gravity and Neil Armstrong’s moon landing.