True stories of heroism, endurance and survival

Two decades after radiocarbon dating declared the Turin Shroud a mediaeval fake, brand-new historical discoveries strongly suggest that this famous cloth, with its extraordinary photographic imprint, is genuinely Christ's shroud after all.

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware.

What do you do when your wife abducts your children?

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of Rivals, now a major series on Disney+Pigeons carrying vital messages to and from the beleaguered city during the Siege of Paris; horses and mules struggling through miles of fetid mud to bring ammunition to the front in the Great War; dogs sniffing out mines for the British invasion force in the Second World War - countless brave animals have played their part in the long, cruel history of war.

The only daughter of alcoholic parents, novelist Pip Granger spent much of her childhood outside looking in.

According to statistics, one in three people in the UK today is likely to be involved in a step-family at some point in their life.

'In many ways we were an ordinary family: mum, dad, two kids, three dogs, one rabbit, two guinea pigs.

'It wasn't until after he was safely back in the aircraft again that I heard that he'd actually been out on the wing to try to put the fire out .

In this charming collection of nineteen stories, you can't help but fall in love with the unlucky fawn who is saved by a nursing home, the troublesome rabbit who warms her way into a new family and the good (German) shepherd who comforts the sick.

Soon to be a major film, produced by Steven Spielberg and J.

'I am six.

When Ann Kenny was four years old her foster mother hit her across the face with a fireplace shovel.

In this remarkable book, Shirin Ebadi, Iranian human rights lawyer and activist, and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, tells her extraordinary life story.

Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.

On 21 July 1942 the Nazis took control of the small Polish town of Zolkiew, life for Jewish 15-year-old Clara Kramer was never to be the same again.

Irish singing star Daniel O'Donnell's mother, Julia, grew up on a remote island off the northwest coast of Ireland, going barefoot and doing hard labour as as child during the poverty-stricken 1920s.

Matt Lowe's childhood was outwardly idyllic.

Sue Martin was not three years old when she began life at her first children's home: a home that could at best be described as cold and regimented; at worst, torturous and terrifying.

As a young boy, Alexander Sinclair was the target of his mother's irrational hatred.

The true story of the tragic round-the-world yacht race - now the subject of The Mercy, starring Colin Firth and Rachel WeiszIn 1968, the Sunday Times organised the Golden Globe race an incredible test of endurance never before attempted a round the world yacht race that must be completed single-handed and non-stop.

On the night before his thirty-eighth birthday, federal prosecutor Stanley Alpert was kidnapped by a car-full of gun-toting thugs.

In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland.

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.

THE ULTIMATE SURVIVAL GUIDE for anyone who thinks they'd survive the world's most hostile environments - or at least imagine they could do.

THE STORY BEHIND THE HARDEST CLIMB IN HISTORY & ACCLAIMED DOCUMENTARY 'DAWN WALL' 'Heart-stopping, absorbing' Daily Mail 'The most daring free climber on the planet' The Times__________ In 2015, climber Tommy Caldwell took on the hardest challenge of his life, spending 19 days freeclimbing Yosemite's vertical, 3000-foot Dawn Wall - regarded as the most difficult climb in history and a route nobody had ever done before.

'A highly readable and spiritually uplifting book about a dream come true' Wanderlust 'Touching and memorable .

After their fantastic trip round the world in 2004, fellow actors and bike fanatics Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman couldn't shake the travel bug.

In April 2011, four soldiers - each a veteran of recent conflicts, who suffered devastating injuries in the line of duty - set out on an extraordinary challenge: a two-hundred mile trek, unsupported, to the North Pole.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, the South Pole was the most coveted prize in the fiercely nationalistic modern age of exploration.

Beryl Markham, like Karen Blixen, could only have come out of Africa.

From the bestselling author of Jupiter's Travels and Dreaming of Jupiter comes an entertaining and inspiring new journey round Britain.

A tale of one man's obsession with rainforest jewels, this is the story of an impossible dream: a quest to see every one of the world's most elusive avian gems--a group of birds known as pittas--in a single year.

How the love and labor of parents have changed our understanding of autismAutism has attracted a great deal of attention in recent years, thanks to dramatically increasing rates of diagnosis, extensive organizational mobilization, journalistic coverage, biomedical research, and clinical innovation.

Reforming the World offers a sophisticated account of how and why, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, American missionaries and moral reformers undertook work abroad at an unprecedented rate and scale.

The first complete account of the Jack and Elizabeth Ennis story-a WWII tale of love, danger, and internment in Japanese-occupied Singapore.

The first complete account of the Jack and Elizabeth Ennis story-a WWII tale of love, danger, and internment in Japanese-occupied Singapore.

This book is a photographic snapshot of some London Metropolitan Police Stations as they stand at a time of great change in the police force and society in general.

SS und Polizei sollten im Dritten Reich zu einem schlagfertigen Staatsschutzkorps verschmolzen werden.

Este libro proporciona una visión general ágil y práctica para las familias y los cuidadores de niños y niñas con dislexia, destacando los pasos que pueden seguir para apoyarlos y animarlos.

A monumental new history of British conflict, publishing for the eightieth anniversary of VE Day'Impressive.

Des Powell left school with no qualifications and little in the way of formal education.

This second edition of Ambulance Care Essentials offers a complete guide to the skills, knowledge and understanding required to work as a support worker or similar within the ambulance service.

Public protection has become an increasingly central theme in the work of the criminal justice agencies in many parts of the world in recent years.

How does the journey of self-discovery unfold in the aftermath of a life-altering stroke?

'I was filled with apprehension about crossing the front line, but I would have risked my life to save just one child.

Hochsensibilität im Alltag meistern: Wenn im Kopf Chaos herrscht - Strategien für hochsensible Menschen zur BewältigungEntdecke in meinem Buch "Hochsensibilität im Alltag meistern: Wenn im Kopf Chaos herrscht - Strategien für hochsensible Menschen zur Bewältigung" wertvolle Einblicke.

The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of her wartime poetry.

WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZEWITH A FOREWORD FROM MARGARET ATWOOD'This book would always have been important evidence that the Ukraine people were suffering criminal attack.

The compulsively readable new book from The Rest is Classified host Gordon Corera.