True stories of heroism, endurance and survival

Jean Gros erzählt in diesem Buch seine Lebensgeschichte von seiner Kindheit bis hin zu seiner Entlassung aus der Kriegsgefangenschaft.

Sandra Gregory seemed to have the perfect life in Bangkok - until illness, unemployment and political unrest turned it into a nightmare.

Als Italien 1915 Österreich-Ungarn den Krieg erklärt, will auch die 16-jährige Viktoria Savs kämpfen.

Wilhelm »Willo« Welzenbach ist der beste Bergsteiger seiner Zeit, der zwanziger und dreißiger Jahre des letzten Jahrhunderts.

Niemand sah ihn fallen, keiner hörte seine Hilferufe – er war allein in der stürmischen SeeEs sollte ein unbeschwerter Männertrip werden, doch für ihn wurde es die Hölle: April 2013, irgendwo vor Sumatra, mitten im Indischen Ozean.

Die berühmte Shackleton-Expedition in die Antarktis – erzählt wie nie zuvor: Im Jahr 1914 bricht der englische Abenteurer Frank Wild zusammen mit dem bedeutenden Polforscher Ernest Shackleton und 26 Männern zum »letzten Trip auf Erden« auf – sie wollen die Antarktis durchqueren.

Melchior Roths Leben gleicht einer abenteuerlichen Reise an die Brennpunkte der jüngeren Zeitgeschichte.

Here, for the first time in English, is Franz Brentano's The Teaching of Jesus, a compendium of texts Brentano assembled for publication shortly before his death that constitute a frank, public settling of accounts with the Christian religion.

Helene Thornton has lived a life of unequalled passion and hartache.

For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented.

Les pathologies chez l'enfant ne sont pas fixees irremediablement, leur evolution est incertaine et le diagnostic s'avere souvent delicat.

Charismatische Körpersprache: Wie du von innen nach außen strahlst Mit unserer Körpersprache sprechen wir auf der nonverbalen Ebene zu unserem Gegenüber.

Effektiver kommunizieren: Jeder kann zum Kommunikations-Genie werden!

The astonishing story of a brave little girl from Afghanistan who not only survived horrific disfiguring burns, but was given a second chance at life.

From the moment I am born, I am like no-one else around me.

A rollicking ride through the early days of Australian Motorsport set in 1900-1918 in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast, the true story of bitter rivalry between two Brisbane car importers/dealers: E.

Crime prevention that works - the goal of much government and corporate policy - can be difficult to discover amongst obscure and tedious academic texts.

Soldier Magazine's Book of the MonthFascinating.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The Nazis spared their lives because they were twins.

Dive into the daring deeds of wartime pilots in the throes of World War II.

Ever wondered what it truly felt like to be in the heart of the Battle of Britain?

Meet Micky Gluckstad.

The extraordinary true story of Solomon Northup, a free African-American living in New York in 1841, who was kidnapped, sold into slavery, and subjected to unimaginable degradation and abuse until his rescue 12 years later.

Aged thirteen, Martha is rescued by the courts from the clutches of her evil stepfather, Jackser, and her feckless mother, Sally.

Lance Corporal Martyn Compton's life was changed beyond recognition when he was blown up in a Taliban ambush that killed three of his colleagues.

This is an incredibly moving account of tragedy and its aftermath, as told by Gill Hicks, survivor of the London bombings in July 2005.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE EDWARD STANFORD ADVENTURE TRAVEL BOOK OF THE YEAROn 1 April 2011, rower and adventurer Sarah Outen set off in her kayak from Tower Bridge for France.

The constant dangers that deep-sea sailing ships and sailors of the late 19th century and early 20th centuries faced were numerous and this book recounts the true-life dramas of their perils and misfortunes - the battles that they waged, and all too often lost - against the hazards of the sea.

A tale of two tugboats brimming with adventure, mishap and intrigue.

The trials and tribulations experienced while sailing two old and tired American tugboats halfway around the world.

A new edition of the bestselling memoir Shame, including additional content from the author updating her story to the present day.

WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEThe acclaimed bestselling classic of Holocaust literature, adapted into the award-winning film Schindler's List'One of the world's greatest writers' Spectator'Extraordinary' Graham Greene'Powerful' The Times'Marvellous' Sunday TimesIn the shadow of Auschwitz, as thousands faced death in Nazi-occupied Poland, an unlikely saviour emerged.

A fascinating retelling of Oskar Schindler's extraordinary story and how it came to the world's attention through Thomas Keneally's Booker Prize-winning novel and the subsequent multiple Oscar-winning film, Schindler's List*27th January 2019: 25th anniversary of the movie, which will be re-released in the UK and Australia*In 1980 Thomas Keneally walked into a shop in Beverley Hills to buy a briefcase, an impulse that was to change his life.

The impossibly moving story of how Judy, World War Two's only animal POW, brought hope in the midst of hell.

In April 1997-98 Camilla Carr and Jon James set off as volunteers in a GBP500 Lada stacked high with toys, games, footballs, paints and a parachute.

On January 15, 2009, a US Airways Airbus A320 had just taken off from LaGuardia Airport in New York, when a flock of Canada geese collided with it, destroying both of its engines.

After an idyllic early childhood in Surrey, Linda's life descended into poverty and chaos when her parents' marriage crumbled and her unstable mother's sanity declined.

A British naval officer details life as a prisoner of war and his courageous and suspenseful escape attempts during World War II.

Perfect for readers of Last Stop Auschwitz, The Volunteer and The Tattooist of Auschwitz'This is an extraordinary biography.

Imagine standing over a bomb - you need to make a choice.

Rather than being evidence-based, the 'everyday' practice of ADHD health care enacted daily by a multitude of professionals is the result of the interaction of historical, social, political, economic and institutional elements.

Rather than being evidence-based, the 'everyday' practice of ADHD health care enacted daily by a multitude of professionals is the result of the interaction of historical, social, political, economic and institutional elements.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Why did I survive when so many others did not?

* Winner of the 2024 National Outdoor Book Award in Outdoor Literature * Winner of the 2025 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction * Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Air Mail, Smithsonian Magazine, and Financial Times ';A triumph.