True stories: general

What do 'Abu Sindi', 'Timothy Sean McCormack', 'Saro', and 'Commander Avo' all have in common?

Corruption has played a pivotal role in determining the current state of the world - from mass poverty in developing countries, to the destruction of natural resources and to the erosion of trust in political parties.

This richly detailed account reveals how Sir Ralph Abercromby's strategy restored the honour of the British army and averted disaster for the Empire.

This is the story of D-Day, told through the voices of over 1,000 survivors.

The harrowing story based on George Herbert Hill's experience of the Battle of St Quentin during the First World War.

The biography of Arthur Weigall, the British Egyptologist who was involved in the exploration and conservation of the monuments and antiquities of a region stretching from Luxor to the Sudan border.

Kamal Shair's book is a classic rags to riches story: the village boy, who with determination and education, achieves business success, wealth, more wealth, and then influence and power.

The truly extraordinary life story of Giovanni Belzoni, one of the giants of 19th century Egyptian archaeology.

In the spirit of The Glass CastleandThe Burning Light of Two Stars, Antonia Deignan delivers whatNew YorkTimesbest-selling author Julie Cantrell calls a a heart-shattering memoir of painful truth and soulful healing.

Raised by two loving parents in New Delhi, India, Kanchan Bhaskar has always been taught that marriage means companionship, tenderness, and mutual respectso when she enters into an arranged marriage, this is the kind of partnership she anticipates with her new, seemingly wonderful, husband.

The state of Yucatan has its own distinct culinary tradition, and local people are constantly thinking and talking about food.

Hotel K - Bali's most notorious jail - is Hell in Paradise.

'Hard eyes stare out of massive beards, their faces marked by the scars of battle.

On 10 May 1941, Rudolf Hess, then the Deputy F hrer, parachuted over Renfrewshire in Scotland on a mission to meet with the Duke of Hamilton, ostensibly to broker a peace deal with the British government.

In this beautifully designed book, Howard Marks' daughter, the writer and lawyer Amber Marks, has collated and curated highlights from Howard´s extensive and, until now, unseen personal archive.

After more than forty years, Charles Manson continues to mystify and fascinate us.

The Black Dahlia case.

In his two-decades-long career with the Metropolitan Police, Detective Sergeant Harry Keeble has hunted child murderers and child abusers, drug dealers and hit men.

Using Stories to Build Bridges with Traumatized Children is full of creative ideas for how you can use stories therapeutically with children in counselling, life story work or direct work.

DELIVERS AN EFFECTIVE, ENGAGING NEW TECHNIQUE FOR TREATING CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSETreating a confirmed or suspected case of childhood sexual abuse is undoubtedly one of the most challenging situations a clinician can face.

Caring for the mental health of children and their families is complex and challenging-and meaningful.

On a hot summer day in August of 1892, a double murder took place in Fall River, Massachusetts.

On August 4, 1892, an elderly couple living in Fall River, Massachusetts, was slaughtered with a hatchet.

This first book by Pennie Morehead chronicles the life of Judith, the wife of Gary Ridgway, the infamous serial killer of more than 48 women.

After it was announced that the twenty month-old son of Charles and Anne Lindbergh was abducted, the entire world grieved for their loss.

Moving backwards from the murders thirty-one men committed, through their adult lives, relationship histories, and their childhoods, David Adams sought to understand what motivated these men to kill.

"e;We live together under the thick canopy, each searching for the other; the same leeches and mosquitoes that feed on our blood feed on his blood.

Tell kids not to worry.

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Merida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's top royal official, don Lucas de Glvez.

Readers searching for courage and adventure will find just that and more in the engaging prose of Jack Schaefer in this vintage collection of Western vignettes.

Schaefer shares the individual stories of seven people-rancher, sheepherder, homesteader, town settler, soldier, miner, and cowboy-in this collection.

In these classic stories acclaimed author Jack Schaefer yet again captures the spirit and adventure of the Old West.

In this true Western classic Jack Schaefer tells the story of a mysterious stranger who finds himself in the Wyoming Territory joining local homesteaders in their fight to keep their land and avoid the intimidating tactics of cattle driver Luke Fletcher.

Walter Schmid, a member of Rommel's Afrika Korps, was one of hundreds of thousands of POWs interned in the United States during World War II.

Cowboy, army guide, farmer, peace officer, and character in his own right, John P.

DELIVERS AN EFFECTIVE, ENGAGING NEW TECHNIQUE FOR TREATING CHILDHOOD SEXUAL ABUSETreating a confirmed or suspected case of childhood sexual abuse is undoubtedly one of the most challenging situations a clinician can face.

Safely convicting criminals relies on finding the truth.

Up the close and down the stair,Up and down with Burke and Hare.

Accounts of lynching in the United States have primarily focused on violence against African Americans in the South.

As scandalous as any modern-day celebrity murder trial, the "e;Giroux affair"e; was a maelstrom of intrigue, encompassing daggers, poison, adultery, archenemies, servants, royalty, and legal proceedings that reached the pinnacle of seventeenth-century French society.

On a winter day in 1892, in the broad daylight of downtown Memphis, Tennessee, a middle class woman named Alice Mitchell slashed the throat of her lover, Freda Ward, killing her instantly.

In August 1995 David Kaczynski's wife Linda asked him a difficult question: "e;Do you think your brother Ted is the Unabomber?

One August night in 1931, on a secluded mountain ridge overlooking Birmingham, Alabama, three young white women were brutally attacked.

This inescapably controversial study envisions, defines, and theorizes an area that Laura Wright calls vegan studies.

A notable and tragic case of the struggle between legal and social justice Reelfoot Lake has been a hunting and fishing paradise from the time of its creation in 1812, when the New Madrid earthquake caused the Mississippi River to flow backward into low-lying lands.

Recounts how a frightened and war-weary household dealt with privations during the blockade imposed on the South by the federal navy Parthenia Hague experienced the Civil War while employed as a schoolteacher on a plantation near Eufaula, Alabama.

A true crime classic, the definitive account of the notorious 1954 assassination of Alabama Attorney General Albert Patterson On June 18, 1954, just a few weeks after being elected Alabama's Attorney General, Albert Patterson was assassinated outside his law office in Phenix City, Alabama.

Provides for the first time a complete and dispassionate history of the most discussed and least known agency in the history of the American Republic In late 1974 the U.

Informed by thousands of pages of newly released FBI files, The Kidnapping and Murder of Little Skeegie Cash tells the gripping story of the only crime investigated by J.

Thirteen Loops: Race, Violence, and the Last Lynching in America recounts the story of three innocent victims, all of whom suffered violent deaths through no fault of their own: Vaudine Maddox in 1933 in Tuscaloosa, Sergeant Gene Ballard in 1979 in Birmingham, and Michael Donald in 1981 in Mobile.