Nigel Cawthorne: 90 books
Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession
The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With several million copies sold in the last fifty years, My Secret Life, first published by Grove Press in the 1960s, is one of the most famous pornographic works in literary history. What readers of this long-banned and troubling book of violent sexual fantasies failed to realize is that it is also...
Doomsday
50 Visions of the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Just how near is the end of the world? Behind the veil of safety of everyday life in the West lurks the sinister reality of a chaotic universe. Doomsday reveals the very real threats posed to modern civilisation as the 21st century progresses, and asks the question: Is humanity on the path to destruction?...
by Pamela Ball, Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
When bigotry and power-mania take control, disaster always follows for ordinary people - even when the power is wielded by the Church. Witchcraft, of course, was seen as devil-worship. Those accused - over 100,000 people, mainly women, between 1450 and 1750 - were subjected to the most bestial tortures...
Tyrants
History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
An astonishing compendium of dictators and their crimes against the State. The scope of entries is an all-encompassing chronicle of tyrants. They range from the bizarre to the horrific, from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. The book includes 100 of history's most infamous despots. In vivid detail...
The Curious Cures Of Old England
Eccentric treatments, outlandish remedies and fearsome surgeries for ailments from the plague to the pox
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the time, many of these cures...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this book reveal 45 shocking, scandalous--and often disturbing--stories of promiscuity and sexual...
The Mammoth Book of New CSI
Forensic science in over thirty real-life crime scene investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
Detailed accounts of over 30 contemporary cases, or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science.
Crime scene investigations draw on a wide range of cutting-edge technology including genetic fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, laser ablation, toxicology and ballistics...
Witch Hunt
The History of Persecution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
When bigotry and power-mania take control, disaster always follows for ordinary people - even when the power is wielded by the Church. Witchcraft, of course, was seen as devil-worship. Those accused - over 100,000 people, mainly women, between 1450 and 1750 - were subjected to the most bestial tortures...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
Sex scandals, some historical but many contemporary, involving political figures, celebrities, movie stars, sports stars, musicians and artists, from Julius Caesar's affair with Cleopatra, which scandalized Rome and may have contributed to his murder, to what exactly IMF head Dominique Strauss-Kahn...
Against Their Will
Sadistic Kidnappers and the Courageous Stories of Their Innocent Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 12, 2012
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2013
Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man but found its location during the reign of Richard II, the Lionheart,...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
The most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to American and British special forces, covering all aspects of their equipment, training and deployment in the Iraq age of warfare.
It takes a special kind of person to join the Special Forces and those to pass the stringent entrance requirements...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U. Once dubbed 'the English disease', British match-day thuggery has spread right across Europe and beyond. Here is the inside story of that phenomenon from those that were there, taking part in the mayhem. 'Yob Laureate' Dougie...
Piraten
Die Geschichte der Freibeuter
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
Die spannende Geschichte der klassischen Freibeuter wird hier erzählt. Wer waren die verwegenen Männer, die mit ihrer Totenkopfflagge Angst und Schrecken verbreiteten? Dieses Buch lässt das Zeitalter der Piraten und das Leben an Bord wieder lebendig werden.