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Books > Humanities > History > History of specific subjects > Military history
NOT ONLY... beer in Berlin, absinthe in Prague, baths in Budapest,
Dracula in Transylvania, trenches in Gallipoli, a plethora of
Greco-Roman ruins, fairy chimneys in Capadocia, lost cities, souks
and castles in Syria, angry Kurds, absent Armenians, Mounts Nemrut
and Ararat, depressed in Iran, harassed in the Stans, filthy
Chinese food and filthier loos, the Wall and the Warriors... BUT
ALSO... a lost car in Calcutta, road rage in India, charred corpses
in Nepal, Everest in Tibet, the Potala Palace, chanting monks,
appalling roads, disgusting food, unspeakable bogs, magical Mount
Kailash, mayhem in the Stans, Stalingrad, Crimea, the Light
Brigade, Auschwitz and in Bruges... "Every traveller should make it
his life's work to leave Swindon... few go to such extremes..." Dom
Joly. "Lies, it's all lies..." Chairman Mao. The author is an Old
Etonian, Cambridge graduate, retired investment banker and
completely unrepentant.
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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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