True stories: general

Meet the men who, for decades, have ruled the football terraces.

"e;Captain Canot, or Twenty Years of an African Slaver"e; is a biography of Captain Theodore Canot written and edited from his journals, memoranda and conversations by Brantz Mayer.

The remarkable, untold story of one Holocaust survivor's resilience against all odds, discovered through a chance encounter with a collection of her wartime poetry.

An immersive exploration of the mystery that gripped internet sleuths and bloggers and inspires an avid online following to this daythe bizarre disappearance of the Jamison family in the rugged Sans Bois Mountainsfrom a contemporary master of true crime journalism.

Nocturnas es una novela erótica inspirada en los míticos cafés con piernas de Chile.

Im August 1992 wurde die Leiche von Chris McCandless im Eis von Alaska gefunden.

Solomon Northup lebte als freier Bürger, bis er von Sklavenhändlern verschleppt und an einen Plantagenbesitzer in Louisiana verkauft wurde.

Una infancia difícil, su temprana sordera y un carácter indómito no le impidieron a Beethoven convertirse en un talento sin precedentes.

'Please help me,' he said in a small voice.

ALLAN PINKERTON Ultimate Collection: True Crime Stories & Detective Stories gathers the writings that helped define the nineteenth-century detective narrative, blending memoir, case history, and popular crime fiction.

"e;Narrative of the Life and Adventures of an American Slave"e; is a self-published autobiography by an American abolitionist and former slave, Henry Walton Bibb.

En 1755 Mary Jemison, teniendo 13 años, fue secuestrada por los indios, junto con todos los miembros de la familia.

TRUE CRIME COLLECTION: The Greatest Cases of Pinkerton National Detective Agency gathers accounts of detection, pursuit, infiltration, and criminal ingenuity from the formative age of modern American policing.

Por vez primera se recogen historias de las pioneras en el salvaje Oeste americano.

A collection of vivid and powerful testimonies from the conflict in Ukraine, collated and illustrated by award-winning artist George Butler.

'This is a book that is surely about killers, but they don't take the spotlight.

Crime stories fascinate the public.

Herefordshire is still a largely rural and agricultural county, centred on the cathedral city of Hereford, but it has had infamous and bloody events in its past, including shocking murders and appalling crimes.

Gang Wars of London charts the development of organised crime in the capital since 1945, from the post-war street gangs to the drug barons, cyber criminals and terrorists that threaten our safety today.

In February 1997 Billie-Jo Jenkins was murdered at her home in Hastings, Sussex.

"e;Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl"e; is an autobiography by a young mother and fugitive slave Harriet Ann Jacobs.

Charles Bronson is the most feared and the most notorious convict in the prison system.

Einsatzstichwort »hilflose Person«.

Elmer Gantry is Sinclair Lewis's caustic 1927 novel of American religious commerce, following a swaggering, morally elastic salesman of salvation from college athletics and seminary posturing into the revivalist pulpit.

The story of twelve friends who gathered to share and celebrate the extraordinary wines of Bordeaux.

'A thorough guide to just about everything worth drinking.

For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "e;stirring account,"e; and says, "e;dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans.

The first hundred years of the American Mafia's existence would come to be seen as a golden age.

Azhar Girgis in The Candy Maker reshapes the features of characters who have been transformed by wars and transformed them into defective beings who seek salvation and do not achieve it.

Charlie Bronson has spent three decades in solitary confinement, and yet has stayed as fit as a fiddle, gaining several world strength and fitness records in the process.

"e;The Life of Olaudah Equiano"e; is one of the earliest-known examples of published writing by an African writer and the first influential slave narrative of what became a large literary genre.

René lernt Steffi kennen.

For true crime readers obsessed with learning the full story, get the book that Publishers Weekly calls a "e;stirring account,"e; and says, "e;dogged reporting and expert pacing make this a good bet for true crime fans.

If you liked Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.

Dieses eBook: "Haarmann" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.

Was macht ein Mönch den ganzen Tag?

Jeffrey Dahmer committing his first murder with a fear of being left alone, then went on luring young boys and keeping souvenirs of their skulls.

Ob Geiselnahme, Bankraub oder Amoklauf: Es gibt kaum ein Verbrechen, über das Michael Behrendt noch nicht berichtet hat.

A lens into the unexplored and unseen cosmosA beautiful book showcasing the most stunning images from the first years of the James Webb Space Telescope, the most powerful infrared space observatory, along with expert insights into their revelations.

Since their foundation during the Second World War, the Parachute Regiment has acquired a formidable reputation as tough, fearless soldiers.

Meet the hardest men in Britain - minders, villains, gangsters, bodyguards, SAS hitmen, murderers and terrorists.

"e;Fifty Years in Chains"e; is an autobiography of a fugitive slave,Charles Ball, where he describes his life as a slave under various masters and his service in the Chesapeake Bay Flotilla of the U.

Love and lust are among the most powerful of emotions, but when joint thirst for violence is thrown into the mix, it creates the ultimate lethal cocktail.

Foreword by Yuvraj SinghIn late 2020, while preparing for his new posting in Goa, police officer Nidhin Valsan was struck by a mysterious, excruciating pain that set off a chain of life-altering events.

The murder of Harvey and Jeannette Crewe in their Pukekawa farmhouse in 1970 remains New Zealand's most infamous cold case.

Anyone who has ever traveled to Florida immediately assumes they've got the state figured out.

Entender el crimen organizado y las economías ilícitas es un desafío tan apasionante como complejo.

TRUE CRIME & MYSTERY Boxed Set gathers Allan Pinkerton's accounts of detection, pursuit, imposture, and criminal enterprise, works poised between memoir, casebook, and Victorian sensation narrative.

'Not really slept for two nights trying to finish this book.

For over fifty years, Freddie Foreman's name has commanded respect, and occasionally fear, from those who work to uphold the law - and those who operate just outside of it.