True stories: general

On October 17, 1965, Navy LTJG Porter Halyburton was shot down over North Vietnam on his 76th mission and listed as killed in action.

Ein spannender Roman über Freundschaft, Vertrauen und das Überschreiten von Grenzen.

Here is an outstanding personal memoir penned by a German infantry officer recalling his experiences during the initial days and weeks of the war in the West, July-September 1914.

»EIN BUCH, DAS HOFFNUNG GIBT.

"Freiheit beginnt in der Seele und arbeitet sich nur langsam von innen nach außen.

Rosie Garthwaite berichtet seit Jahren aus Krisengebieten und hat nun genaudas Buch geschrieben, das sie zu Beginn ihrer Karriere gern gehabt hätte: eine Sammlung von Geschichten und Ratschlägen erfahrener Kollegen.

Sie sind schwer bewaffnet und ständig auf der Hut.

Er war ein führendes Mitglied der gefährlichsten Rockerbande der Welt.

"Wir waren dort, um zu kämpfen.

*LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 WINGATE PRIZE***A GUARDIAN AND OBSERVER GRAPHIC NOVEL OF THE YEAR**This is the story of the ordinary extraordinary life of Dr Elena Zadik.

»Im Sommer 1991 war ich ein ganz normales Mädchen.

»Für mich war der Dschungel nie eine grüne Hölle, sondern ein Ort, der mich am Leben hielt.

Enzo hat es in der Mafia weit gebracht: Er ist Ehrenmann der Cosa Nostra mit Aufträgen in Deutschland und Italien.

Einer der ersten Fälle, von denen wir erzählt haben, in Heft 3, Oktober 2015, der seitdem weder unsere Leserinnen und Leser noch uns loslässt, ist der Mord an Frauke Liebs.

In ihrem so bewegenden wie erschütternden Porträt fragt die renommierte Journalistin Elizabeth Flock: Warum werden Frauen gewalttätig?

This book addresses the multidisciplinary challenges in biodiversity conservation with a focus on wildlife crime and how forensic tools can be applied to protect species and preserve ecosystems.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, covering a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

This two-volume, edited collection lays the groundwork for an international exploration of incarceration and generation, cover a range of geographic, judicial and administrative contexts of incarceration from contributors across a range of subjects.

Valor features the thrilling stories that are the fruit of Mark Lee Greenblatt's interviews with brave American servicemen from twenty-first-century wars.

This book assesses the implications of how children and young people are represented in print media in Northern Ireland - a post-conflict transitioning society.

In the wake of recent violence our nation has experienced, and the paranoia that has ensued, we've directed our attention to potential terrorists in our midst.

This book examines the nature of relations between penal reform campaigners, journalists and policymakers at the crime-media nexus.

Islamist, Scholar, Bomb-maker Spy.

The Attica Turkey Shoot tells a story that New York State did not want you to know.

Over the last century only six men had defied the power of nature and successfully rowed across the Atlantic from west to east.

In this meticulously researched classic of the JFK conspiracy genre that Library Journal calls "e;sensational,"e; Mark North argues convincingly that President John F.

From sex-crazed fiends to cold-eyed professional assassins, only those convicted of the most terrible murders are told they will die behind bars.

When Sarah Taylor suspected that her four-year-old daughter, Nadia, had been kidnapped by Fawzi, her abusive ex-husband, Sarah's whole world was turned upside down.

This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West's most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women's experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters.

Wildfire tells the story of the first decade of The Prodigy from the perspective of original member Leeroy Thornhill, fully illustrated with entirely unseen photography from the earliest raves, to Japan and the United States in the late '90s, by which point the band were one of the biggest on the planet.

Lane shows how globalisation has transformed the Mafia into more than simply a local phenomenon.

The Most Complete and Up-to-Date Resource on Forensic Structural EngineeringThoroughly revised and featuring contributions from leading experts, this definitive handbook offers comprehensive treatment of forensic structural engineering and expert witness delivery.

The Purple Gang was a loosely organized confederation of mobsters who dominated the Detroit underworld and whose tentacles reached across the country.

Eddie Trascher was a gentleman gangster but he never wanted to be part of the mob.

From the 1950s to the 1970s, from Bar Harbor to Boca Raton, the ragtag crew known as the K&A Gang robbed wealthy suburban neighborhoods with assembly line skills.

Lepke Buchalter, the only organized crime boss to be executed in the US was one of the most important figures in the history of organized crime.

A former mob wife shares a candid account of her whirlwind marriage, the struggles she faced, and the redemptive power of faith.

Milwaukees Sicilian underworld is something few people speak about in polite company, and even fewer people speak about with any authority.

The cautionary true crime shocker of Virginia's Elizabeth Hall, and one of the most sensational trials of an accused murderess since Lizzie Borden.

"e;Must the end of life be the worst part?

A slain soldier's widow details her husband's murder by a fellow soldier .

David McCampbell was the leader of the most successful naval air group in combat in World War II.

The leader of one of the most successful U.

This scholarly study of the centuries-long history of fornicatory dolls examines the enduring obsession with creating an idealized, silent female sexual object and the manifestations of this desire through the ages in mythology, literature, art, philosophy and science.

Chronicling the growth of a recruit from boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, to a seasoned troop leader, this memoir also relates the experiences of the 200 marines in A Company, First Battalion, Second Marines, as they engaged in island warfare in the South Pacific at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan and Tinian.

'A FASCINATING READ' DR MARIE CASSIDYWHEN A VIOLENT INCIDENT LED YOUNG MISFIT GARDA JOHN SWEETMAN INTO THE GARDA TECHNICAL BUREAU WITH INCRIMINATING EVIDENCE, HE FOUND HIS TRUE CALLING.

A well-known observer of Taiwan and Asian history and culture provides an insightful biography of Lee Teng Hui, the pro-democracy statesman and former president of the Republic of China.

Vice Admiral Allan Rockwell McCann left no reminiscences that might reveal a deeper sense of his extraordinary service, but naval historian Carl LaVO has filled that void by writing this revealing-and often inspiring-biography.

Two high-achieving African-Americans in the U.

The fourth volume in the Harte Research Institute's landmark scientific series on the Gulf of Mexico provides a comprehensive study of ecosystem-based management, analyzing key coastal ecosystems in eleven Gulf Coast states from Florida to Quintana Roo and presenting case studies in which this integrated approach was tested in both the US and in Mexico.