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Explosive SAS action in East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan.

On October 5, 1892, the last of the major outlaw gangs of the Old West was destroyed in a gun battle in Coffeyville, a small town in southeastern Kansas.

Capturing the chaotic nature of the U.

From Lassie to Old Yeller to Rin Tin Tin to Marley, dogs have stolen our attention and our hearts.

This book draws on a wide range of evidence to explore the facts about the relationship between substance misuse and domestic violence and their effect on children, and examines the response of children's services when there are concerns about the safety and welfare of children.

Like a character in a Hitchcock movie, Dave McOmie travels the country breaking into bank vaults, cracking jewelry store safes, and decoding unbreakable codes secured deep in government facilities.

Thad Roberts, a fellow in a prestigious NASA programme had an idea - a romantic, albeit crazy, idea.

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.

After spending over three years in the horrific prisoner-of-war camps, including those along the Thai-Burma Railway, Sally Dingo's father Max was one of the fortunate ones: he came home.

Erstmals auf Deutsch: Essays und Erinnerungen des einflussreichsten Friedensaktivisten des 20.

Public mass killings are becoming more common.

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.

During a government career that spanned nearly the whole of the Cold War, George R.

Yorkshire Murders & Misdemeanours invites the reader to take a look at the dark side of life.

Edinburgh is a city rightly famed world-wide.

'The Majorana Case is beautifully written, with a pleasant style, and concatenates a great deal of material.

Beginning in 1933, Eleanor Jarman was sensationalized by the press as the blonde tigress and the most dangerous woman alive.

Generation Oxy is the story of a group of friendsclean cut, all-American high school kidswho stumbled into the Sunshine State's murky underworld of illegal pill mills and corrupt doctors.

My brother Patrick remembers my first beating, of which I assume I was completely unaware.

This thrilling story memorializes one of the most dangerous--and successful--series of undercover operations conducted by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

In 1931, a 12-year-old boy shot and killed the sheriff of Asotin, Washington.

This chronicle of ten controversial mid-Victorian trials features brother versus brother, aristocrats fighting commoners, an imposter to a family's fortune, and an ex-priest suing his ex-wife, a nun.

The Profumo Affair was the political scandal of the twentieth century.

The national bestseller: John Cobby finally tells his story, 30 years after the murder of his wife, Anita.

For most of human history, sudden and unexpected deaths of a suspicious nature, when they were investigated at all, were examined by lay persons without any formal training.

The real story that inspired the BBC drama, The GoldOn Saturday, 26 November 1983, an armed gang stole gold bullion worth almost 26 million from the Brink's-Mat security depot near London's Heathrow Airport.

When Lynda Lustig met Louie Milito, she was a sixteen-year-old high-schooldropout with a taste for adventure and an agonizing childhood.

While it is generally agreed amongst criminologists that the world of crime is predominantly the domain of men, women played a much larger role than they do today before the twentieth century.

A shocking firsthand account of a young mom's fight for justice while being wrongly imprisoned, and the incredible stories of the women she meets inside.

Marcel Beyer geht der Frage nach, wie sich Schriftsteller:innen heute zur medialen Verarbeitung des Krieges verhalten können.

Texas convicts and inmates have made the Texas prison system the most colorful in the world over the past 150 years.

Das Werk beinhaltet wertvolle Ratschläge und prozesstaktische Hinweise aus langjähriger Verteidigererfahrung, die helfen, schwerwiegende Fehler im Ermittlungsverfahren zu vermeiden.

EN ESTOS TIEMPOS EN LOS QUE CUALQUIER POSICIÓN PUEDE SER POLÍTICAMENTE INCORRECTA Y EN LOS QUE EL FEMINISMO, ABANDERADO POR UNA TENDENCIA RADICAL Y MUCHAS VECES FUERA DEL SENTIDO COMÚN, PARECE SER LA TÓNICA IMPERANTE, ESTE LIBRO VIENE A DESMONTAR EL FEMINISMO DE POSTUREO.

A hard-hitting history of the U.

Exploring the unintentional production of seemingly feminist outcomes In India, elite law firms offer a surprising oasis for women within a hostile, predominantly male industry.

From prehistory to the present-day conservation movement, Pyne explores the efforts of successive American cultures to master wildfire and to use it to shape the landscape.

Caution: Contains incidents of insane motorcycle antics, drug use and swearing.

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

A collection of the most mind-boggling and outrageous True Crime cases you've ever read.

During the summer of 1792, a man wearing the rough garb of a vaquero stepped out of the night shadows of Merida, Yucatan, and murdered the province's top royal official, don Lucas de Glvez.

The definitive account of the notorious California serial killer examines the psychology of a murderer, his crimes, and his cult following Decades after Richard Ramirez left thirteen dead and paralyzed the city of Los Angeles in the 1980s, his name is still synonymous with fear, torture, and sadistic murder.

Today more than ever, international headlines are dominated by dispatches from the many dictatorships that still dot the globe.

Sex, privilege, corruption, and revenge--these are elements that we expect to find splashed across today's tabloid headlines.

'Will undoubtedly become a classic narrative of this scenically magnificent, legend-rich and geologically unique part of Scotland' Cameron McNeish, The HeraldRising a kilometre out of the storm-scoured waters around Scotland's Isle of Skye is a dark battlement of pinnacles and ridgelines: the Cuillin.

Die Menschen, die hier von ihren Erinnerungen an den Zweiten Weltkrieg und die Zeit des Nationalsozialismus berichten, haben nur eins gemeinsam: Sie waren damals noch Kinder.

Transcripts from the popular true-crime podcast tell the story of one of Ohio’s infamous cold cases: the fatal stabbing of a Miami University graduate.