True stories: general

A series of daring missions from World War II, revealed through letters and documents from the main protagonists.

Andreas Tiede beschreibt in seiner Autobiografie sein Aufwachsen in der DDR als Sohn strenggläubiger Eltern, seinen daraus resultierenden Wunsch, Priester zu werden und den Waffendienst aus Glaubensgründen zu verweigern.

Der Band versammelt Geschichten von Menschen, die oftmals vor Jahrzehnten nach Deutschland eingewandert sind und hier ein neues Leben begonnen haben.

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

Published to mark the 75th anniversary of VE Day, an unforgettable never-before-told first-person account of World War II: the true story of an American paratrooper who survived D-Day, was captured and imprisoned in a Nazi work camp, and made a daring escape to freedom.

Help your daughter fulfil her potential and achieve success in a challenging world.

A boy and his dog, girls and their horses - the cliches click because they're so often true.

Smuggling in Cornwall: An Illustrated History tells the story of the smuggling trade that flourished in Cornwall during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Utilizing forensic evidence that was ignored by the police, and documents that have never before been released to the public, Alan Strachan has produced the horrific account of a man who was wrongfully executed for rape and murder -- even though it is quite possible that there was neither a rape nor a murder.

Two best friends' lives were about to change for ever, neither would ever be forgotten.

Effektiver kommunizieren: Jeder kann zum Kommunikations-Genie werden!

First published in 1981, Murder at the Broad River Bridge recounts the stunning details of the murder of Lieutenant Colonel Lemuel Penn by the Ku Klux Klan on a back-country Georgia road in 1964, nine days after the passage of the Civil Rights Act.

Vor dem Hintergrund zunehmender Einsatzzahlen im Zusammenhang mit Unwetterereignissen gewinnt auch das Thema Meteorologie vermehrt an Bedeutung für die Feuerwehr.

Including a foreword by a woman who once dated him, the perverse, violent stories, poetry, and fantastic scribblings of a man convicted in 1972 of murdering two women chart the killer's extreme pathology.

Der Autor, Mario Eduard Giovanelli vermittelt in seinem einfach verständlichen, informativen, meist ernsthaft, manchmal auch witzig, zynisch und sarkastisch geschriebenen Buch, 'Zum Blöken zu dämlich - Von den Dummheiten und Irrtümern Einzelner über die der Massen, bis hin zur Beherrschung des Schach des Lebens', im ersten Teil über sowohl historische als auch gegenwärtige Dummheiten, Irrtümer und Fehlentscheidungen Einzelner bis hin zu denen der Massen.

In this remarkable legal page-turner, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Barry Siegel recounts the dramatic, decades-long saga of Bill Macumber, imprisoned for thirty-eight years for a double homicide he denies committing.

WILLIAM ROSE (1885-1968) learned the Polish language and became an enthusiast of Polish culture under unusual circumstances; at the outbreak of the First World War the young scholar from Minnedosa, Manitoba, found himself trapped in Europe behind enemy line.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

This edited volume explores the intersection between the coded realm of the video game and the equally codified space of law through an insightful collection of critical readings.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTELLER'Utterly brilliant.

This text contains Samuel Leech's fascinating account of his nautical adventures.

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Take the combined fortunes of Bill Gates, Tiger Woods and Roman Abramovich.

Dr Olivier Ameisen was a brilliant cardiologist and running his own successful practice when he developed a profound addiction to alcohol.

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.

Europe and Turkey look back onto a history when each side often perceived the other as menacing and meddling.

The mafia has always fascinated filmmakers and television producers.

Through intimate portraits of four exonerated prisoners, journalist Alison Flowers explores what happens to innocent people when the state flings open the jailhouse door and tosses them back, empty-handed into the unknown.

"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.

On September 21, 1953, U.

In 1999, idealistic 23-year-old Registered Nurse Sharon Bown left her comfortable family life in Tasmania and joined the Royal Australian Air Force with the aim of providing humanitarian aid to the world.

An engaging account of an extraordinary, trailblazing woman - Australia's first female detective - LILLIAN ARMFIELD is also the vivid and gripping story of the origins of Sydney's organised crime underbelly.

*** WINNER OF THE NATIONAL CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY ****** LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JACQUELINE BOGRAD WELD AWARD FOR BIOGRAPHY ***'The Queen is an invaluable work of non-fiction' - David Grann, Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower MoonThis is the gripping true tale of a villain who changed American history.

Originally published in 1972, Christopher McKee's biography of Edward Preble remains the most authoritative source on this influential early shaper of the U.

In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the citya wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of The Devil in the White City.

A detailed history of SACO- the rice paddy navy -the U.

The Marikana Massacre of August 16, 2012, was the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since the end of apartheid.

The year is 1936.

Personal Security: Keeping Yourself and Your Family Safe is a video presentation.

An investigative journalist's true crime account of the murder of the gambling executive and the trial of his accused girlfriend and her new boyfriend.

Over twenty years ago, Sarah Cortez left a flourishing corporate career to strap on agun, and police the streets.

A classic tale of true crime, now an HBO film titled Mrs.

From animal welfare campaigner Vanessa Holburn and with a foreword by dog lover and presenter of 'A Place in the Sun' Danni Menzies, this book has everything you need to know to help you pick the perfect pooch for your home and lifestyle.

I've written this book to help you the soldier kill the enemy when you get the chance and, most importantly, come back home in one piece.