More than two centuries after Master’s Mate Fletcher Christian led a mutiny against Lieutenant William Bligh on a small; armed transport vessel called Bounty; the true story of this enthralling adventure has become obscured by the legend. Combining vivid characterization and deft storytelling; Caroline Alexander shatters the centuries-old myths surrounding this story. She brilliantly shows how; in a desperate attempt to save one man from the gallows and another from ignominy; two powerful families came together and began to create the version of history we know today. The true story of the mutiny on the Bounty is an epic of duty and heroism; pride and power; and the assassination of a brave man’s honor at the dawn of the Romantic age.
#127678 in Books Antony Beevor 2003-04-29 2003-04-29Format: Deckle EdgeOriginal language:EnglishPDF # 1 8.41 x 1.15 x 5.46l; 1.15 #File Name: 0142002801528 pagesThe Fall of Berlin 1945
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. What happened to the maps? Why wasn't the digital edition edited?By D.E.The text is good but there are a fair number of errors in the digital version suggesting that when OCR was applied to the print text no one edited the digital version. Parenthesis are often misplaced and "1st" becomes "ist" throughout. The kindle version is also devoid of maps but I am pretty sure the print version has them. Why is this? In a way I feel kind of cheated. I used various online map websites when the opportunity arose but frequently I read in the morning before work at a coffee shop and I don't carry a tablet or personal laptop with me and moreover I don't want to have to open another device to read the book....I have a Kindle for convenience (I can buy a book right away or borrow it from the library etc) and to save space on my book overflowing shelves. I know that maps don't work terribly well on a Kindle because of the screen size ; but they should still be included if they are in the original. I am going to complain to . The one reason I bought the kindle version and not a used hardcover for like 25 cents plus shipping that I bought Stalingrad years ago pre (remember those days- actual book stores!) and the physical condition of the new book was so bad that it fell apart in just a few weeks.2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. Decent storytelling; poor bookmaking; especially in the Kindle versionBy Steve HarrisonThis is a well-done combination of military and social history. It breaks no new ground but is a useful summary.On the Kindle version; on any platform; and as usual; the maps are hard to get to and hard to read. If you want to follow troop movements -- which Beevor; a military historian; describes in detail -- get a hard copy of the book or use your own maps.Beevor's prose is decent but his mistakes are annoying. "Orientate" and "disorientate;" for example; are not words. In the old days (twenty years ago and more) there was; somewhere along the publishing process; a person called an "editor" who would do what was called "editing;" which involved among other things preventing this sort of blunder from making its way into print. That now-obsolete fellow might also have seen to it that "Werwolf" wasn't spelled three different ways in four pages. And there are typographical glitches that seem to be the sort of Kindle conversion errors that have become routine.6 of 7 people found the following review helpful. ... reading Stalingrad I wanted to see what payback looked like. The Russian army behaved as brutally as any ...By Super Lit.After reading Stalingrad I wanted to see what payback looked like. The Russian army behaved as brutally as any army in history. Including Attila the Hun. Modern Russian historians/scholars have re-written this part of their history. If you can say sugar coated then that might be close. Most of it is impossible to cover up. Women were treated as animals to be shackled inside of barns and kept there for entire armies to take pleasure in. Young and old alike. Fear the Red Army!
