True stories: general

Casualty care and first aid is an integral part of the fire and rescue services' role and firefighters have always worked closely with pre-hospital medical providers in their aim to save lives.

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A lo largo de los últimos doscientos años, Nueva York ha sido escenario de miles de delitos y crímenes de todo tipo: asesinatos fríamente calculados, robos espectaculares, matanzas mafiosas, atentados devastadores, casos memorables que contribuyeron a mejorar la metodología policial, psicópatas desatados.

What sort of person undertakes to rob a multi-ton train surging down a set of rails at high speed?

Acompaña al caballero don Quijote y a su escudero Sancho Panza en sus divertidas aventuras y descubre a través de ellas la valentía, el amor, la amistady la importancia de ayudar a los demás.

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An essential introduction to Josephus's momentous war narrativeThe Jewish War is Josephus's superbly evocative account of the Jewish revolt against Rome, which was crushed in 70 CE with the siege of Jerusalem and the destruction of the Temple.

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.

He was born in rural Missouri, and it was immediately clear that he was different from the rest.

In the early 1970s, three young girls were slain near Rochester, NY, in the so-called Alphabet murders.

Changes are occurring in the multiple sclerosis community.

It was one of the biggest scandals in New York University history.

In the early 1930s, George Raft, an actor and dancer from New York City's Hell's Kitchen, gained a name for himself playing stylish and charismatic gangsters in films like 1932's original Scarface.

History comes alive in these pages as Peter Stephaich traces his origins from 1608 when King Rudolph II of Hungary conferred noble status on his family.

In 2011 a 24-year-old man pled guilty to falsifying his application to Harvard University, bilking the world's most prestigious university out of more than $45,000 in prizes and scholarships.

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

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In this vividly honest memoir, author Michael Uhl details his experiences in Vietnam as first lieutenant of a counterintelligence team attached to the 11th Infantry.

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The brutal murders of young Devon and Damon Routier in the early morning hours of June 6, 1996, put their motherDarlie Routierat the heart of one of the most notorious murder cases in modern Texas historydespite her own throat having been slashed to within two millimeters of her carotid artery.

The Devils Right Hand chroniclesthe legacy of death and destruction in the gunmaking Colt family during the nineteenth century, a legacy largely remembered for a lurid murder case that inspired Edgar Allan Poe's story ';The Oblong Box'but one that encompassed much more.

Father of Organized Crime, Lucky Lucianoborn poor in Sicily, came to New York's Lower East Side in the early 1920s.

'Our Town' is the much awaited follow-up to the best selling story 'Hartlepool Born & Bred' about the life of the ever popular Michael (Mick) Sorby.

The Neglected Childprovides everything educators and caregivers need to know to identify and intervene in neglectful situations, while also creating a safe, nurturing, and protective environment for young children.

The death of George Armstrong Custer ended the life of one of the most flamboyant, brave, careless, and fascinating characters to ever wear a United States military uniform.

The Dodgeris the story of John Bigelow "e;Johnny"e; Dodge, a wartime hero and a pivotal figure in the escapade immortalised in the legendary Hollywood filmThe Great Escape.

What Americans call the Vietnam War actually began in December 1946 with a struggle between the communists and the French for possession of the country--but Vietnam's strategic position in southeast Asia inevitably led to the involvement of other countries.

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This is the personal account of an army infantry platoon leader and commanding officer in the central highlands of Vietnam during 1967 and 1968 when he was 21 years old.

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

This book recounts four tours of Air Force duty in Vietnam, 1965-1968, and reports firsthand how tactics and the war effort changed each time.

The author of this Vietnam War memoir was drafted in November 1966 just before completion of his Ph.

On February 25, 1957, the nude, badly bruised body of a young boy was found in a cardboard box in trash-strewn woods of north Philadelphia.

Tales Behind the Tombstones tells the stories behind the deaths (or supposed deaths) and burials of the Old West's most nefarious outlaws, notorious women, and celebrated lawmen.

The gripping tale of a legendary, century-old murder spree***A silent, simmering killer terrorized New England in1911.

Theres a reason Elvis father hired two private investigators to find his murderer.

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

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.

This memoir is a record of what Jensen calls the luckiest and greatest adventure of his life.

Previously published as 'In the Skin of a Jihadist'Twenty year-old "e;Melodie"e;, a recent convert to Islam, meets the leader of an ISIS brigade on Facebook.

Part of the outstanding biographical series - edited by Richard Holmes - that recovers the great classical tradition of English biography.

A critical look at the man behind the bubble economies of the last two decadesIn his critically acclaimed Greenspan s Bubbles, coauthor Frederick J.

Starting in late 2012, Westerners working in Syria -- journalists and aid workers -- began disappearing without a trace.

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When Alfredo Sanchez was approached on the street in May of 1928, he received life-changing news about his own past.

The Secret Alliances Between History's Most Notorious Buccaneers and Colonial AmericaWas classical piracy an earlier version of state-sponsored terrorism?

Denise Pikka Thiem, de 41 años, norteamericana y de origen asiático, necesitaba reinventarse, hacer un break en su vida.

How 19th-century soldier, adventurer and scholar Henry Rawlinson deciphered cuneiform, the world's earliest writing, and rediscovered Iraq's ancient civilisations.