True stories: general

Sometimes humorous, sometimes tongue-in-cheek, sometimes deeply sad and moving-such are the biographies of fifteen Texas bad girls.

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

A gripping history of the SAS in World War II, supported by a collection of rare images from the SAS Regimental Association.

From the bestselling author of Operation Mincemeat, now a major filmSHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD'Engrossing as any thriller' Daily Telegraph'Superb.

More Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of even more of the Old Wests most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

On Saint Patrick's Day, 1990, one of the largest art thefts in the world took place-the heist of Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in which thirteen works of art, worth over half a billion dollars, were stolen by two thieves posing as policemen.

The riveting true story of a sham school run by longtime con men whose scheme crashed and burned live on televisionIn August of 2021, a high school football team became the talk of the nation.

In January 1889, as London constables hunted for Jack the Ripper and theaters around the world presented theatrical renditions of the Jekyll and Hyde story, Jackson, Michigan, Police Captain Jack Boyle searched for the murderer of Mary Latimer.

In Black Metal music, the "e;most evil"e; wins.

In Unlucky to the End Richard Pound provides a detailed and thought-provoking examination of the circumstances of the robbery, the subsequent flight of the suspects and murder of the policeman, as well as the hostage scene that led to the death of one of the robbers.

Praise for the first edition:'Ann Cattanach writes with enormous empathy and warmth, and with a refreshing lack of sentimentality.

The year is 1936.

This is the extraordinary story of the author's twenty year quest to find gold coins which his father's family buried in their backyard in Poland just prior to being deported by the Nazis into concentration camps.

Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets.

La historia de la Iglesia es, en parte, la historia de los errores de los cristianos y de los cometidos contra ellos.

Nathan Bedford Forrest.

What would cause an otherwise intelligent, well-educated, and, by all accounts, privileged Californian to forgo an easy life in the United States to struggle for survival in a land of strife and mortal danger?

Fully updated and revised, Donald Rumbelow s classic work is the ultimate examination of the facts, theories, fictions and fascinations surrounding the greatest whodunit in history.

The definitive book on one of the most notorious murders in Jazz Age New York history, that of Vivian Gordon, the high-end escort, con artist, and blackmailer connected to gangsters like ';Legs' Diamond and Arnold Rothstein, whose death exposed the dark underbelly of police corruption throughout the cityfrom the Pulitzer Prize and Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist who is one of the foremost Mafia experts writing today.

The definitive history of MI9's emergency escape and evasion mapping programme and the contribution the maps made to victory in 1945.

True stories of the Grand Canyon state's mostinfamous robbers, rustlers, and bandits.

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

In this exquisitely written journal-turned-journey of self-discovery, international bestselling author Paolo Cognetti examines our universal desire for connection through a voyage in the Himalayas.

Engendered Death: Pennsylvania Women Who Kill is an historical and interdisciplinary study of women who kill in Pennsylvania from the 18th century to the present.

A practical tool for the assessment of children and their families, this guide enables professionals to make informed decisions about child protection issues.

A vain man of good looks but no family ties to the Mob, Vincent ';Vinny Gorgeous' Basciano worked his way up to acting boss of the Bonanno crime family, becoming its leader when official boss Joseph Massino went to prison in 2003.

Saying that no generation of Americans has produced a finer array of combat commanders than that of World War II, a thirty-year army veteran examines combat leadership throughout the war at every level of command in the U.

The Victorian belief that women were the 'weaker sex' who were expected to devote themselves entirely to family life, made it almost inconceivable that they could ever be capable of committing murder.

From February 2005 to March 2006, Navy trauma surgeon Zsolt Stockinger served on a forward operating base in Iraq's Sunni Triangle, where he treated more than a thousand casualties and performed hundreds of surgeries.

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

In 1954, two college students were hiking along a creek outside of Boulder, Colorado, when they stumbled upon the body of a murdered young woman.

In a violent 19th century, desperate attempts by the alienists - a new wave of 'mad-doctor' - brought the insanity plea into Victorian courts.

The No1 Sunday Times BestsellerA Waterstones Best Politics Book 2024A Mail on Sunday 'Best Holiday Read 2024'A searing expose' Glamour'A timely reminder of the dangers posed by men who crave power' - ObserverFrom New York Times bestseller Maureen Callahan, a fierce, character-driven expose of the real Kennedy Curse-the family's generations-long legacy of misogyny, murder, and mayhem-and the women who have paid the price for our obsession with Camelot.

A professional behavioral witness to more than a hundred capital trials explores the making of a murderer.

Being a copper at the yard was definitely an exciting time for the author, John Woodhouse, but it did take it's toll on social and family life.

A rare treat for World War II history buffs and fans of the strange, absurd, and unexplained Acclaimed military historian William Breuer takes readers on a trip through the looking glass to acquaint them with the weirder side of World War II.

Wild Child by Alan Croghan: a child's journey through crime, punishment and redemption.

Before appearing on the BBC's The Great British Sewing Bee, Chinelo Bally had never used a sewing pattern.

A gripping, real-life thriller set in the world of the most important tradeable commodity on earth: oil________________________'A taut thriller .

Iraq in 2009 was a strange netherworld, not quite war but not yet peace.

Die wichtigsten Schauplätze sind die letzten drei Jahre des Zweiten Weltkriegs in Stettin und nach der Kapitulation die sogenannte Ostzone, die spätere DDR.

An estimated 800,000 children are reported missing each year in the United States.

******* A TIMES 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' **********Shortlisted for the CWA Dagger for non-fiction***'A magnificent, meticulous and startling re-examination of a crime that haunts the world's imagination' Geoffrey Wansell, author of An Evil Love: The Life of Frederick West'Eatwell writes brilliantly .

Mount Desert Island has attracted scoundrels and scandals for more than 100 years.

One ordinary spring morning in Reykjavik, Iceland, Thordis Elva kisses her son and partner goodbye before boarding a plane to do a remarkable thing: fly seven thousand miles to South Africa to confront the man who raped her when she was just sixteen.

This isn't a book about a conflict in a faraway country; it's a wake-up call.

A New York Times Best Seller!