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Paperback. For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; BG; BTC; WDMC; WDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Arrow London
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAK0006914
- ISBN
- 9780099490999
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Lt Colonel John Paul Vann went to Vietnam in 1962, but soon became appalled by the slaughter, leaking his pessimistic assessments to the US press corps in Saigon. Neil Sheehan was among them, and became fascinated by the angry Vann, befriended him, and followed his tragic and reckless career. Num Pages: 896 pages, 16pp b&w halftones. BIC Classification: 2ABM; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 233 x 153 x 58. Weight in Grams: 1042.
- Publisher
- Vintage United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 896
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780712666565
- ISBN
- 9780712666565
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 25.84
€ 38.99
€ 25.84
Paperback. Cheating in casinos is illegal: card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. This book tells the true story a successful scam, in which teams of young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. Clean copy
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0231140
- ISBN
- 9780099468233
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Cheating in casinos is illegal: card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. This book tells the true story a successful scam, in which teams of young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTJ0005409
- ISBN
- 9780099468233
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Bobby Teale and his brothers, David and Alfie, were the three men the Kray twins trusted most. They weren't in the Firm, they were closer than that. They were old family friends, confidants, companions.. But then things changed. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Ebury Publishing
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780091946630
- ISBN
- 9780091946630
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 14.44
€ 19.99
€ 14.44
Paperback. Num Pages: 122 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 142 x 9. Weight in Grams: 182.
- Publisher
- Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd Canada
- Number of pages
- 122
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781926613307
- ISBN
- 9781926613307
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.44
€ 14.99
€ 11.44
Hardback. Broadmoor: My Journey Into Hell documents the story of long-term prisoner Charlie Bronson and his five-year stay at Britain's most notorious mental hospital, Broadmoor. His journey has, until now, never been told. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 3JJPN; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 163 x 21. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784181178
- ISBN
- 9781784181178
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 16.50
€ 23.99
€ 16.50
Paperback. Sara Davies spent her whole childhood living in fear. She has known terror that no child should ever know. When she was only five years old, her father robbed her of her childhood when he raped her for the first time. For Sara, this was just the beginning of years of torment and terror. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: BTC; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Publisher
- John Blake Publishing Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782192299
- ISBN
- 9781782192299
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 9.99€ 8.35
€ 9.99
€ 8.35
Paperback. The shocking and powerful true story of the woman who tried to stop the abuse in Rotherham. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKEYK; BT; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129. Weight in Grams: 300.
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main Market Ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781509801626
- ISBN
- 9781509801626
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 16.91
€ 18.99
€ 16.91
Paperback. Offering the real inside scoop, Whitey Bulger's #2 man in Boston's Irish mob tells where the bodies are buried. Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 pages of colour photographs. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 154 x 23. Weight in Grams: 388.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780061148064
- ISBN
- 9780061148064
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.37
€ 13.99
€ 10.37
Paperback. Suitable for those interested in true-crime history and the shadier side of Buckinghamshire's past, this title includes cases such as the slaying of a family of seven in Denham in 1870, the killing of a butcher's wife in Victorian Slough for which no one was ever found guilty, and an apparent suicide in Chesham which turned out to be murder. Num Pages: 160 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKESU; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 182 x 247 x 11. Weight in Grams: 416.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Number of pages
- 160
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752470238
- ISBN
- 9780752470238
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.42
€ 18.42
Paperback. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: BT; VFJ; YFY; YXC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 227 x 185 x 11. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Northstone Publishing Inc Canada
- Number of pages
- 154
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781896836799
- ISBN
- 9781896836799
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 31.99€ 21.23
€ 31.99
€ 21.23
Paperback. Tells the story of brave Arctic explorers who died in their attempts to seek the North-West Passage and North Pole during the years 1845-1877. Among them was Jim Hand from Bray, Co Wicklow. Num Pages: 296 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1MTN; 3JH; BTH; HBTM; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 160 x 20. Weight in Grams: 450.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd Dublin
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845889456
- ISBN
- 9781845889456
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.40
€ 20.40
paperback. "Gripping, intense.. Buried in the Sky will satisfy anyone who loved [Into Thin Air]."-Kate Tuttle, Boston Globe Num Pages: 320 pages, 16 pages of illustrations; 8 maps. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; 3JMC; BTP; WSZG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 208 x 142 x 19. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780393345414
- ISBN
- 9780393345414
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.74
€ 17.99
€ 13.74
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825307782
- ISBN
- 9780825307782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.29
€ 17.29
Paperback. The unvarnished, human story behind the infamous Burke and Hare murders. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKSC; 3JH; BTC; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 131 x 34. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- Birlinn General
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Edition
- 3rd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780272177
- ISBN
- 9781780272177
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 15.82
€ 19.99
€ 15.82
Paperback. A shocking testimony, a true story of unbelievable cruelty. Souad's crime, sex before marriage was considered a grave dishonour to one's family and punishable by death. One morning her brother-in-law poured petrol over her and set her alight. For this he was considered a hero in Jordan. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 110 x 22. Weight in Grams: 184.
- Publisher
- Bantam
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780553816303
- ISBN
- 9780553816303
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 10.71
€ 13.99
€ 10.71
Paperback. Num Pages: 96 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKENL; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 158 x 6. Weight in Grams: 164.
- Publisher
- The History Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780752488714
- ISBN
- 9780752488714
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.37
€ 18.37
Paperback. On 23 Jun 2011 the convicted double-murderer Levi Bellfield was found guilty of the murder of 13-year-old school girl Milly Dowler. Milly disappeared on her way home from school in Walton-on-Thames, Surrey in 2002. Six months later her body was discovered many miles away. A police investigation, the manhunt in Surrey's history, got nowhere. Num Pages: 336 pages, Full colour eight page photo inset. BIC Classification: BTC; JKVF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 136 x 22. Weight in Grams: 220.
- Publisher
- Michael Joseph
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780241952818
- ISBN
- 9780241952818
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.00
€ 16.99
€ 13.00
Paperback. Num Pages: 167 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBNT; BTM; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 139 x 215 x 14. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S. United States
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Number of pages
- 167
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780873515085
- ISBN
- 9780873515085
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 21.12
€ 24.99
€ 21.12
Busted: A Tale of Corruption and Betrayal in the City of Brotherly Lov...
Ruderman, Wendy, Laker, Barbara
Paperback. Num Pages: 272 pages. BIC Classification: BM; BTC; JFSG; JKVM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 204 x 22. Weight in Grams: 198.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Harper Paperbacks
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780062085450
- ISBN
- 9780062085450
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 16.03
€ 17.99
€ 16.03
Paperback. Begins when the author announces to his bride of two months that they will build a boat and sail to the South Pacific. Num Pages: 224 pages, 16 b/w photographs. BIC Classification: BT; WSSN3; WTL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 295.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781574090031
- ISBN
- 9781574090031
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 16.77
€ 16.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. A frank, funny and shocking memoir of one woman's struggle to free her family from debt - by becoming an escort. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KLN0017616
- ISBN
- 9780751536980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. A frank, funny and shocking memoir of one woman's struggle to free her family from debt - by becoming an escort. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: BT; JFMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 21. Weight in Grams: 206.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- New Ed
- SKU
- KLN0017617
- ISBN
- 9780751536980
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99