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by Bernard Bannerman
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
The body of a woman solicitor was discovered by staff arriving yesterday morning at the Holborn offices of Mather's, prestigious London solicitors. Katrina Pankhurst, 32, had been shot. Police investigating a murder on the premises is bad news for a law firm, as it discourages clients. But as Dave...
The Riddles Of Wipers
An Appreciation of the Trench Journal “The Wipers Times”
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
The Wipers Times was the Private Eye of the Ypres Salient during World War One. Edited, while under bombardment, by a battalion commander in the Sherwood Foresters, written by soldiers actually in the trenches and distributed by ration-wagon and ammunition-mule. the paper bears vivid witness to the...
by Pen Avram
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2014
Hendrych goes undercover to join a dangerous paramilitary group. Playing a dangerous game, he befriends one of the anarchists in an attempt to thwart their terrorist plot. This time however, the stakes are too high, and Kroupa is scared for the first time in his life, because not even he can pre-dict who lives and who dies.
by Michael Bowen
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
For some it is an "honor cottage." For United States Senator Desmond Gardner it's a minimum security federal prison that he and Sweet Tony Martinelli now call home. Unlike Gardner, Martinelli's rap sheet smacks more of crime in the streets than crime in the suites...which is why it makes...
The Awful Killing of Sarah Watts
A Story of Confessions, Acquittals and Jailbreaks
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Before Road there was Frome . . . before Whicher there was Smith . . . before the heartless slaughter of four year old Saville Kent there was the brutal rape and murder of fourteen year old Sarah Watts.
Taking place nine years earlier than the Road Hill case, made famous by the best-selling...
The Justice Women
The Female Presence in the Criminal Justice System 1800-1970
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
The first policewomen were established during the Great War, but with no powers of arrest; the first women lawyers did not practise until the early twentieth century, and despite the fact that women worked as matrons in Victorian prisons, there were few professional women working as prison officers...
Red Star Under the Baltic
A Firsthand Account of Life on board a Soviet Submarine in World War 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2005
Red Star Under The Baltic is the graphic memoir of a Soviet submariner during his years at sea in the Baltic during the Second World War. Not only is this a superb record of the appalling conditions endured on these basic craft, but a very human account detailing the comradeship and tensions among...
Gladiators and Beast Hunts
Arena Sports of Ancient Rome
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2015
Gladiators and Beasthunts is a comprehensive survey of arena sports in ancient Rome, focusing upon gladiatorial combat and the beast-hunts (venationes). Whilst numerous books have already been written on arena spectacles in ancient Rome, they generally neglect the venationes, despite the fact that...
A Secret History of Brands
The Dark and Twisted Beginnings of the Brand Names We Know and Love
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2017
The true—and often shocking—stories behind some of the biggest names in business.
We live our lives immersed in name brand products. What most of us don’t know is that the origins of many of the most well-known and beloved brands in the world are shrouded in controversy, drug use, and...
by Matthew (Matt) Wharmby
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
Vilified as the great failure of all London Transport bus classes, the DMS family of Daimler Fleetline was more like an unlucky victim of straitened times. Desperate to match staff shortages with falling demand for its services during the late 1960s, London Transport was just one organization to see...
Photographing the Fallen
A War Graves Photographer on the Western Front 1915–1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2017
Ivan Bawtree has left behind a vast array of archives that tell the story of his work as a photographer with the Graves Registration Units on the Western Front from 1915 to 1919. He traveled to numerous parts of Northern France and Flanders most notably the Ypres Salient to photograph and record graves...
SS Einsatzgruppen
Nazi Death Squads, 1939–1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
In June 1941, Adolf Hitler, whose loathing of Slavs and Jewish Bolsheviks knew no bounds, launched Operation Barbarossa, throwing 4 million troops, supported by tanks, artillery and aircraft into the Soviet Union. Operational groups of the German Security Service, SD, followed into the Baltic and...
by Susan Brewer
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2013
Part of the popular Famous series, Famous Dolls celebrates dolls in film, TV, cartoons, books, comics and comic strips, as well as toys such as Hamble in Playschool. It also explores the world of celebrity dolls including stars such as Shirley Temple and Mae West, pop star dolls including Michael...
Battleships of the United States Navy
Rare Photographs from Wartime Archives
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From 1895 to 1944 the US Navy commissioned some 60 steel-clad battleships; the first being Indiana (BB-1) and the last USS Missouri (BB-63). After an impressive showing in the Spanish-American War and the ‘Great White Fleet’s’ circumnavigation of the world, US battleships played only a minor...