Gordon Kerr: 23 books
College Killers
School Shootings in North America and Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
COLLEGE KILLERS School Shootings in North America and Europe
Contents Introduction NORTH AMERICA : Pontiac’s Rebellion School Massacre; Bath School Disaster; University of Texas Tower Shootings; Ecole Polytechnique Massacre; Jonesboro Massacre; Thurston High School Massacre; Columbine...
Hotels of Death
The Famous Checked In But Never Checked Out
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2013
Hotels of Death The Famous Checked In But Never Checked Out — Oscar Wilde, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, John Belushi, Nancy Spungen, Whitney Houston, Martin Luther King, R Kennedy, HH Holmes, Reles
Contents Introduction Hotel Murders and Assassinations : H.H. Holmes: The World’s...
Timeline of the Popes
A History from St Peter to Francis I
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Contents Introduction Early Christians and the Roman Empire The Middle Ages Renaissance and Reformation The Modern Era
Pope Francis, who succeeded Benedict XVI after his surprise resignation in March 2013 is the 266th person to occupy the office said to have first been held by St. Peter,...
Breakout
The Great Prison Escapes
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2013
Breakout The Great Prison Escapes
Contents Introduction British Breakouts : Jack Sheppard, Johnny Ramensky, Alfie Hinds, Ronnie Biggs, George Blake American Breakouts : Billy the Kid, John Dillinger, Ted Bundy, The Texas Seven Breakouts Around the World : Casanova, The Great Escape, Alcatraz,...
Book of Firsts
First Time Almost Everything Happened
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Contents Introduction Achieving - Achievement Communicating - Communication Computing - Technology Eating & Drinking - Food & Drink Entertaining - Art & Entertainment Getting Around - Transport Healing - Health & Medicine Law-making, Law-breaking and Fire-fighting -...
Fugitives
Dramatic Accounts of Life on the Run
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
Heather Tallchief escaped from the USA with the man she loved and $2.5 million that didn't belong to her. She must have been on an incredible high. However, the buzz didn't last long. Soon after she and Roberto Solanis landed in Amsterdam to start their new life together, her lover vanished with the...
Hostages
Dramatic Accounts of Real-Life Events
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2011
On 1 September 2004, a group of terrorists disguised as repairmen infiltrated a school in Beslan, Russia. Using concealed weapons they took 1100 children and adults hostage. The world looked on aghast as the siege played out on live TV. Hostages tells the incredible and often harrowing stories surrounding...
A Short History of Europe
From Charlemagne to the Treaty of Lisbon
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2010
From the coronation of Charlemagne in 800 to the signing of the Treaty of Lisbon in 2007, an accessible history of the people, ideas, institutions, and events that have shaped Europe during the last 1,200 years This fascinating history for beginners provides a coherent map of the jumbled history of...
A Short History of the First World War
Land, Sea & Air, 1914-1918
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
As the war is slipping beyond living memory, this concise history helps ensures that the conflict is never forgotten
WWI, lasting just four years from 1914 to 1918, was without parallel, the first true global conflict in which all of the earth's great powers participated. This book tells...
A Short History of China
From Ancient Dynasties to Economic Powerhouse
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
From the beginnings of Chinese prehistory right through to internet censorship, a comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous countryAn absorbing introduction to more than 4,000 years of Chinese history, this book tells the stories of the tyrants, despots, femmes fatales,...
World Serial Killers
They kill for the thrill
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2011
World Serial Killers investigates the fiendish crimes of butchers like Fritz Haarman selling human meat on the streets of Hanover, Germany, Edinburgh body-snatchers Burke and Hare and Alberto De Salvo, the notorious Boston Strangler. Read the accounts of deranged real-life monsters such as Charles...
A Short History of Africa
From the Origins of the Human Race to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012
A comprehensive introduction to the sprawling history of this enormous continent, from the dawn of human time in prehistoric Africa right through to Arab Spring Beginning with the origins of the human race and the development of stone age technology, this history of the cradle of civilization moves...
Leaders Who Changed the World
The extraordinary inspiration of those who create history
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2011
It takes charisma and inspiration to lead any group of people. Leaders who Changed the World explores the lives and careers of such extraordinary individuals as Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte, Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela. Some have slogged and suffered in order to change the world for the...
A Short History of the Middle East
From Ancient Empires to Islamic State
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Situated at the crossroads of three continents, the Middle East has confounded the ambition of conquerors and peacemakers alike. Christianity, Judaism and Islam all had their genesis in the region but with them came not just civilization and religion but also some of the great struggles of history....
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