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Crime
Crime and True Crime books are very popular and should carry a warning as they are true stories of horrific inhumanity and cruelty. Truth is often stranger than fiction.
| TERRY LYNCH Book Number: 58185 |
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Horrific, horrendous, unspeakable, The Whitechapel Murderer, Jack the Ripper, stalked the streets of East London in 1888, slaughtering prostitutes and bewildering the police who were hunting him. ...
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| ROBERT DARNTON Book Number: 82568 |
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Censorship by the state has never been a more urgent issue as we confront the problems of internet pornography and terrorist propaganda. On the other hand, we proudly boast of our commitment to fre...
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| PERCY FITZGERALD Book Number: 83886 |
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"Mrs Bardell could only reply by a look. She had long worshipped Mr Pickwick at a distance, but here she was, all at once, raised to a pinnacle to which her wildest and most extravagant hopes had n...
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| DR GARETH MOORE Book Number: 84470 |
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We are offered the rare privilege of accompanying the most singular of detectives, Sherlock Holmes, on many of his renowned cases. His cranial cogitations are majestic in their profundity, observi...
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| LEONIE FRIEDA Book Number: 84341 |
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Even today, 15th century Italy, that dangerous and exhilarating place, still glitters. Many of the great sculptures, churches, frescoes adorned with the faces of their patrons remain familiar toda...
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| COLIN RODERICK FULTON Book Number: 84360 |
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Germany's state bank, the Reichsbank received 21 direct hits in February 1945 when the US Air Force launched the largest daytime bombing offensive against Berlin ever, dropping over 2,250 tons of b...
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| DAVE GROSSMAN Book Number: 84196 |
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Grossman is a soldier with 24 years' experience, a keynote speaker at the conference of Vietnam Veterans and a professor of military science at Arkansas State University. He now spends his time dr...
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| INTRODUCED BY JULIAN ASSNGE Book Number: 84236 |
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When WikiLeaks published US Government documents with classification markings, two parallel campaigns began ? first, the public campaign of downplaying, diverting attention from, and reframing any ...
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| ADRIAN JOHNS Book Number: 85025 |
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The story starts in 1966 with a confrontation that ended in manslaughter between two pirate radio station owners, the weapon being a twelve-bore shotgun. Pirate radio was a signature phenomenon of...
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| CHARLES KING Book Number: 85036 |
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The Pera Palace, the most luxurious hotel in Istanbul (or Constantinople as it was originally called) was established in 1892 for clients of the Orient Express who would arrive in the capital of th...
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| LISA APPIGNANESI Book Number: 85072 |
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Lively accounts of three trials, one each in Britain, France and America, set between 1870 and 1914, a time when psychiatry was beginning to be taken seriously and emotions were discussed. Not only...
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| DAVID LONG Book Number: 85504 |
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Sub-titled 'In the Steps of the Capital's Killers', from the Ratcliffe highway murders to the siege of Sidney Street via the Kray twins and Dr Crippen, we find out what drove Joe Meek, pop's space ...
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| DAVID THOMAS Book Number: 85595 |
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"The greatest cheats have hit upon some great truths about human nature". Sooner or later all of us are going to fall victim to some scam or fraud, though most are wise to the African millionaire w...
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| David Tremain Book Number: 85763 |
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The Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact of 1939 has ensured that most of the Continent was in the grip of ruthless, totalitarian dictators who were determined to enslave the surviving democracies. This was th...
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| HECTOR BYWATER & H. C. FERRABY Book Number: 85772 |
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Originally written up in 1930 as a series of thrilling articles in the Daily Telegraph, Hector C. Bywater's experiences were soon turned into a book with the help of Daily Express journalist H. C. ...
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| DON JORDAN & MICHAEL WALSH Book Number: 84876 |
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Sub-titled 'Charles II and the Greatest Manhunt in British History', several months after the execution of Charles I in 1649, his elder son Charles, the Prince of Wales, wrote from exile in Holland...
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| KEVIN TURTON Book Number: 85918 |
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True crime never ceases to fascinate, and this collection of 21 murders in the Derby area in the 19th and 20th centuries makes page-turning reading. One of the most extraordinary is the 1927 murde...
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| ROY INGLETON Book Number: 85924 |
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Take a drive through the delightful countryside of the Garden of England - who would have thought that a crime as terrible as murder would happen in a place of such natural beauty? Ingleton has wr...
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| MITCH PEEKE ET AL Book Number: 85926 |
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Unlike most other books on the subject of the opulent passenger liner Lusitania, which was sunk by a German submarine in 1915, this also researches the liner's beginnings, her innovative advances i...
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| STEPHEN WADE Book Number: 85935 |
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Intriguing, dramatic accounts of Yorkshire women who felt the need to kill. The trauma of childbirth, especially when the baby was illegitimate, frequently led to the child's murder, such as in the...
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| ANT ANSTEAD Book Number: 85655 |
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Lovely period brochures the author never knew existed and colour photographs in a centre section showcase some of his favourite police cars, fast cars for high-speed pursuits and the need for pract...
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| DR JOHN WATSON Book Number: 85680 |
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Step back into a gaslit time to join the famous sleuth resolve riddles, The Cult of the Red Star, The Third Curiosity, Grains of Sand, The Shoreditch Bank, In Paris. "My mind rebels at stagnation....
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| SIMON WEBB Book Number: 84186 |
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Astonishingly, it seems that Britain, rather than Germany, was responsible for the widespread use of concentration camps during the 20th century. The book describes in detail the camps run in Scot...
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| EDITED BY JURG AMANN Book Number: 85990 |
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In his own words, a vivid, horrific and unflinching look into the mind of the Auschwitz Commandant. While awaiting execution after the war, Rudolf Hoess, the reviled SS Commandant of the Auschwitz...
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| ALLAN SCOTT-DAVIES Book Number: 85991 |
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The tragic ways that the victims contained within these pages met their ends include deaths in canals and rivers, quarries and pools and even the seemingly innocent bath tub. There are grisly tale...
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| CARLOS DE LA HUERTA Book Number: 86008 |
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The French Revolution threw the whole of Europe into turmoil, with no country more alarmed than Britain. As Napoleon established his iron grip on France, the British government was in a fever of su...
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| BARBARA A.BOND Book Number: 86031 |
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Delve into the secret world of MI9, a new military intelligence branch, and discover its historical background and purpose behind its creation, its secret mapping programme and its unique place in ...
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| BRUCE HOFFMANN Book Number: 85889 |
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At the heart of this landmark history book is the question "Does terrorism work?" and there is no easy answer, but the pervasiveness of terrorism in the 21st century is evidence that its perpetrato...
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| KATE SUMMERSCALE Book Number: 85902 |
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On 8 July 1895 Robert aged 13 and a plater at West Ham Docks, and Nathanael (Nattie) Coombes aged 12 set off from their home in Plaistow to go and see W.G. Grace playing at Lord's cricket ground. T...
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| EDWARD HARRISON Book Number: 85016 |
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This new biography of the notorious traitor re-examines the crucial early years of Soviet spy and British Intelligence Officer, Kim Philby's work as a Soviet agent using private papers and document...
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