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Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory and the Conquest of Everest
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""Lost Victories" is a very good book but I don't know about "Red CRown & Dragon". It might be a book Geevee recommended but it looks good, two good pu...more"
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"It sounds like a great book from a very decent author but I'm not too sure if it is going to be released this year or 2013, fingers crossed its 2012!"
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Many books have been written about the British Mount Everest expeditions of the 1920s that culminated so mysteriously in the disappearance of Mallory and Irvine, last seen "going strong for the top," in 1924. What more could be added to the...
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