Wasyl Andreievych Kushnir was born in Ukraine in 1923, and was witness to the tragedies and horrors of the early years of collectivization under the Soviet regime in his homeland.
'A pacy legal thriller, packed with a colourful cast of characters' - TelegraphLong-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.
This "e;compelling and unforgettable"e; account of Colombian drug cartels follows a kilo of cocaine from the field where it was farmed to America's shores (Jon Lee Anderson, author of Che Guevara).
Serpents of War, the memoir of Pennsylvanian Major Harry Dravo Parkin, is a rare account of World War I as seen from the perspective of a battalion commander.
'A first-class work of reporting [and] a work of compassion for Indigenous peoples everywhere' BENJAMIN MOSER, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of SONTAG'Reads like a wondrous mixture of Heart of Darkness and In Cold Blood.
In April 1982 Harry Benson was a 21-year-old Royal Navy commando helicopter pilot, fresh out of training and one of the youngest helicopter pilots to serve in the Falklands War.
"e;I have had the misfortune of being raped twice-once in the park and again in the media,"e; wrote "e;Jane Doe,"e; the victim of an infamous stranger rape in Brooklyn, New York.
The tragic death of 13-year-old Danny Croteau in 1972 faded from headlines and memories for 20 years until the Boston abuse scandal--a string of assaults within the Catholic Church--exploded in the early 2000s.
'Heartfelt, passionate, infuriating and often devastating, this book will inspire you to fight for your right to tread your own path' CAROLINE CRIADO PEREZ, author of Invisible WomenWhen Rachel loses five family members in five months, grief magnifies other absences.
By choosing to concentrate upon discovering what forest resources were available to the French navy during the ancien régime and what use it was able to make of them, Mr.
Winner of the 2024 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval LiteratureThe Neptune Factor is the biography of an ideathe concept of ';Sea Power,'a term first coined by Capt.
At Trickle Creek in northern Alberta, Wiebo Ludwig thought hed buffered his tiny religious community from civilization, but in 1990 civilization came calling.
The inside story of a secret unit that has worked under cover to expose corruption in the Metropolitan Police since the early 1990s - written by Graeme McLagan, contributor to THE REAL LINE OF DUTY.
A moving and extraordinary book about courage and survival, friendship and endurance a portrait of ordinary women who faced the horror of the holocaust together.
In Magnetized, one of Argentina’s most innovative writers captures the voice of a man who in 1982 murdered four taxi drivers without any apparent motive, using interviews, forensic documents, and newspaper clippings to bring his story to life.
The story of one of the deadliest fires in American history that took the lives of ninety-two children and three nuns at a Catholic elementary school in Chicago.
A revelatory history of the women who brought Victorian criminals to account-and how they became a cultural sensation From Wilkie Collins to the adventures of Sherlock Holmes, the traditional image of the Victorian detective is male.
Der Inhalt:Für Ermittlerinnen und Ermittler von Strafverfolgungsbehörden stellen Vernehmungen und Befragungen ein zentrales Element bei der Aufklärung von Straftaten dar.
A trunk dripping blood, discovered at a railway station in Stockton in 1906, launched one of the most famous murder investigations in California history--still debated by crime historians.
