True stories: general

Between 1933 and 1939, the FBI pursued an aggressive, highly publicized nationwide campaign against a succession of Depression era "e;public enemies,"e; including John Dillinger, George "e;Baby Face"e; Nelson, Charles Arthur "e;Pretty Boy"e; Floyd, George "e;Machine Gun Kelly"e; Barnes, Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow, and the Ma Barker Gang.

Tras más de cincuenta años de profesión, Pedro Piqueras, uno de los periodistas más reconocidos de nuestro país, anunció su retirada en una sincera despedida que nos emocionó a todos.

'We are the Pilgrims, master; we shall go, Always a little further; it may be, Beyond that last blue mountain barred with snow.

';This slim yet insightful and entertaining volume documents the many instances where wine drinkers did not get what they paid for, sometimes with deadly consequences.

From World War II to high above the Earth to Vietnam, this memoir tells the story of fighter pilot Howard C.

This is the story of Tom Phelps and the 'other Kokoda Track'.

For nearly ten years beginning in 1993, Robert Eringer lived a clandestine life of intrigue, conducting a spectrum of covert operations for the FBI's foreign counterintelligence division.

Generally naive about their world, children are thought to be nearly incapable of serious wrongdoing and are rarely suspects in violent crimes.

At 2:34pm on Friday 22 June 1979, the jurors in what had been billed as "e;The Trial of the Century"e; filed into Number One Court at the Old Bailey to deliver the verdict on the Rt Hon Jeremy Thorpe, Privy Counsellor, the former MP for North Devon and ex-leader of the Liberal Party.

Personnel Protection: Vehicle Operations and Safety is a video presentation.

This candid memoir recounts the author's nearly four years in the 3rd United States Infantry Regiment--a.

'Compelling' The Daily Mail'So many gripping moments.

Two high-achieving African-Americans in the U.

In 2010, University of Kansas officials were shocked to learn that the FBI and IRS were on campus investigating Rodney Jones, former head of the Athletics Ticket Office, for stealing Jayhawks basketball tickets and selling them to brokers.

Ein Buch für Frauen und Männer, in den mittleren bis höheren Lebensjahren, für die die Prostata des Mannes plötzlich und unerwartet ein wichtiges körperliches Thema sein wird.

Building upon the theoretical work of Ferenczi, Fairbairn, and Berliner, the author describes four basic relational patterns in the lives of abused children: the reliving of abusive relationships, either as victim or as perpetrator; identification with the aggressor; masochistic self-blame; and the seeking of object contact though sex or violence.

Youve read the shocking one-sided tale of international drug kingpin Owen Hanson in Rolling Stone, VICE, and the LA Timesbut now hes ready to tell his side of the story.

'A powerful book' Shashi Tharoor'A must-read' Vandana ShivaA terrifying investigative account of a global corporation's role in perpetrating India's greatest mercury poisoning catastrophe.

A lethal germ is unleashed in the U.

Warum es wahrscheinlicher ist, dass wir einem Zombie begegnen, als von einem Hai gefressen zu werden.

When it comes to historical mysteries, Texas offers numerous long-perplexing conundrums for readers.

At the turn of the twentieth century, thousands of Italian immigrants left their home country for the United States and, particularly, New York City.

The very first time Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceres met the writer Nina Lakhani, Caceres said, "e;The army has an assassination list with my name at the top.

Since their creation in 1983, the US Navy SEALs have been involved in unconventional warfare around the globe, undertaking crucial and clandestine missions.

In the early 1970s, three young girls were slain near Rochester, NY, in the so-called Alphabet murders.

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South Florida in the 1970s was one of the nation's most dangerous locations.

Adolf Hitler despised cricket, considering it un-German and decadent.

Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air is the true story of a 24-hour period on Everest, when members of three separate expeditions were caught in a storm and faced a battle against hurricane-force winds, exposure, and the effects of altitude, which ended in the worst single-season death toll in the peak's history.

The shocking series of crimes committed by lovers Martha Beck and Raymond Fernandez dominated the front pages in 1949.

The Crimean War (1854-56) is widely considered the first modern war with its tactical use of railways, telegraphs, and battleships, its long-range rifles, and its notorious trenches - precursors of the Great War.

The Angel is an award-winning expose about the sensational life and mysterious death of Ashraf Marwan, an Egyptian senior official who spied for Israel.

Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

One of Sports Illustrated's Top 100 Sports Books of All Time: The riveting story of the point-shaving scandal that shook college basketball to its coreIt was the ultimate Cinderella sports story.

As his father nears death in his retirement home in Mexico, John H.

This book offers an intimate portrait of early twentieth-century Harbin, a city in Manchuria where Russian colonialists, and later refugees from the Revolution, met with Chinese migrants.

In the late 1970s and early '80s, a cadre of freewheeling, Southern pot smugglers lived at the crossroads ofMiami Viceand a Jimmy Buffett song.

Winner of a 2025 Excellence in Publishing Award from the Association of Catholic Publishers: Spirituality (Third Place [tie]).

A New York Times Bestseller!

Having flunked out of college in the fall of 1965, the author enlisted in the U.

»Wir brauchen hier keine Weiber« – von solchen Sprüchen ließ sich die junge Waltraud Mayer nicht entmutigen, als sie 1979 als eine der ersten Frauen in Deutschland in den Rettungsdienst einstieg.

When compared to terrorism, drugs and violent crimes that occupy the news today art is not considered as important.

More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Die Kleinen lässt man zahlen, die Großen lässt man laufenBirgit Orths ist seit 20 Jahren Steuerfahnderin.

Historian Charney tracks the eventful life of the Mona Lisa in this rollicking account.

The inspiration for the Sofia Coppola film.