K2: Life and Death on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain 9780767932615, 2009016390, 0767932617

Finding Elevation: Fear and Courage on the World's Most Dangerous Mountain 9781954854680, 9781954854673, 2022909672

Near the death zone on K2, the world's second-highest mountain, Lisa Thompson searched for the strength to continue

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No Way Down: Life and Death on K2 9780062002907, 9780061834783, 2010005706, 0062002902

“No Way Down is both a gripping read and a clear-eyed investigation of the hubris, politics, and bad luck that brought o

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Savage Summit: The Life and Death of the First Women of K2 9780061753527, 0061753521

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and

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Savage summit: the true stories of the five women who climbed K2, the world's most feared mountain 9780061753527, 0061753521

Though not as tall as Everest, the "Savage Mountain" is far more dangerous. Located on the border of China and

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On Life After Death

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On the Line: Life – and death – in the Metropolitan Police

'A warts-and-all memoir of an ex-cop from probationer days on. Fascinating' IAN RANKIN 'A humane but unfl

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On the Death and Life of Languages 9780300155792

Twenty-five languages die each year; at this pace, half the world’s five thousand languages will disappear within the ne

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Berlin 1961 : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the most dangerous place on earth. 9780425245941, 0425245942

A fresh, controversial, brilliantly written account of one of the epic dramas of the Cold War-and its lessons for today.

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'The Most Dangerous Moment of the War': Japan's Attack on the Indian Ocean, 1942 1612003354, 9781612003351

"A well-detailed account of the [World War II] raid, which badly stung the Royal Navy but which the Japanese failed

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Life, Death, and Growing Up on the Western Front 9780300198560

This book was inspired by the author’s discovery of an extraordinary cache of letters from a soldier who was killed on t

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