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True stories
Paperback. The first gangster to fall foul of Grimes's change of heart was Curtis Warren, aka 'Cocky', the wealthiest and most successful criminal in British history. This work reveals the secrets behind one of the controversial episodes in British judicial history - how former Home Secretary Michael Howard was duped into granting John Haase a Royal Pardon. Num Pages: 288 pages, 8insert(some colour ). BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 19. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Publisher
- Mainstream Publishing
- Number of pages
- 288
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2005
- Edition
- New
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840189254
- ISBN
- 9781840189254
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. On the night of 10-11 May 1996, eight climbers perished in what remains the worst disaster in Everest's history. This title reveals the full, startling facts that led to the tragedy. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 x 8pp b/w. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; 3JJPR; BTP; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 244.
- Publisher
- Transworld Publishers Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781780576411
- ISBN
- 9781780576411
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.79
€ 17.99
€ 12.79
Paperback. The news story of the year: an explosive expose of how British military intelligence really works, from the inside. Num Pages: 280 pages, 16 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DB; BT; JPSH; JWKF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 132 x 19. Weight in Grams: 216.
- Publisher
- O'Brien Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780862788438
- ISBN
- 9780862788438
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 12.57
€ 13.99
€ 12.57
Paperback. Bestsellers Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris investigate one of the century's most puzzling disappearances and a father who killed his sons. Num Pages: 288 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWU; 3JMC; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 173 x 105 x 30. Weight in Grams: 162.
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- St Martin´s Press
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Illustrated
- Format
- Paperback
- SKU
- V9781250066688
- ISBN
- 9781250066688
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 11.08
€ 11.08
Paperback. Num Pages: 224 pages, b/w photos & illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 2ABM; BTC; HBTS; JF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 227 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 384.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- Chicago Review Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781556524479
- ISBN
- 9781556524479
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.64
€ 15.99
€ 15.64
Paperback. Examines a subject that has long been taboo - the sufferings of the Germans during the Second World War. This book explores the sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff, the maritime disaster of all time, and the repercussions upon three generations of a German family. Translator(s): Winston, Krishna. Num Pages: 240 pages. BIC Classification: 2ACG; BTM; FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 128 x 16. Weight in Grams: 198. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- SKU
- KAK0006760
- ISBN
- 9780571216529
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 11.99€ 9.39
€ 11.99
€ 9.39
Paperback. An account of the Krakow Jewish resistance, written during World War II, this book is the story of a group of young Jewish idealists who formed a clandestine unit to commit acts of defiance against the Nazi's, and was written on scraps of paper smuggled into the author's prison cell. Editor(s): Hirsch, David H. Translator(s): Hirsch, Roslyn; Hirsch, David H. Num Pages: 168 pages, 10 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DFG; BTM; HBJD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 230 x 148 x 13. Weight in Grams: 281.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Publisher
- University of Massachusetts Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781558490383
- ISBN
- 9781558490383
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.97
€ 37.97
Paperback. Num Pages: 118 pages, b/w photos. BIC Classification: 1KBC; BT; WGM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 154 x 8. Weight in Grams: 210.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- NeWest Press Canada
- Edition
- First Edition
- Number of pages
- 118
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781897126073
- ISBN
- 9781897126073
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.66
€ 26.99
€ 18.66
paperback. Among the criminal celebrities of Prohibition-era Chicago, two well-educated Jewish boys from wealthy South Side families were notorious. Revealing secret testimony, this book separates fact from myth as it unravels the crime, the investigation, and the trial, in which they were defended by the era's famous attorney, Clarence Darrow. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBNC; 2ABM; 3JJG; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 232 x 153 x 23. Weight in Grams: 530.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1999
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 384
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252068294
- ISBN
- 9780252068294
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.20
€ 29.20
paperback. Roman Halter is a schoolboy in 1939 when he and his family gather behind net curtains to watch the Volksdeutsch neighbours of their small town in western Poland greeting the arrival of Hitler's armies with kisses and swastika flags. Within days, the family home has been seized, 12 year-old Roman becomes a slave of the local SS chief. Num Pages: 352 pages, frontispiece and endpiece. BIC Classification: BGA; BTP; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 129 x 18. Weight in Grams: 330. Good clean copy with minor age & shelf wear. Lightly toned, remains very good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Granta Books
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KSG0039556
- ISBN
- 9781846270338
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
Paperback. A story of two very different men whose lives catastrophically interweaved over the course of some nine months in the late 1960s: one was a thief and con man called James Earl Ray, the other one of the greatest American figures of the twentieth century, Martin Luther King Jr Hampton Sides follows in Ray's footsteps as he escapes from prison. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJPK; BTC; HBJK; JPWL1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 29. Weight in Grams: 360.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- Penguin
- Number of pages
- 480
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780718192068
- ISBN
- 9780718192068
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 12.45
€ 16.99
€ 12.45
Survived by One: The Life and Mind of a Family Mass Murderer (Elmer H ...
Hanlon Phd, Robert E., Odle, Thomas V
Hardcover. Num Pages: 216 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 159 x 21. Weight in Grams: 508.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- Southern Illinois University Press
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780809332625
- ISBN
- 9780809332625
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 41.82
€ 41.82
paperback. Paperback edition of Amberley's bestselling title of 2012. Collects together unabridged, all the major substantial first-hand accounts of the sinking of the Titanic. Num Pages: 512 pages, 135 Illustrations (black and white, and colour). BIC Classification: 1QSAN; 3JJC; BTP; HBTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 165 x 44. Weight in Grams: 766.
- Publisher
- Amberley Publishing
- Number of pages
- 512
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781445614434
- ISBN
- 9781445614434
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 29.99€ 21.59
€ 29.99
€ 21.59
Paperback. In 1992, behind the barbed wire fence of a psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, Thomas Quick confessed to the murder of an eleven-year-old boy who had been missing for twelve years. Over the next nine years, Quick confessed to more than thirty unsolved murders, revealing he had maimed, raped and eaten the remains of his victims. Translator(s): Koch, Henning. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 215 x 136 x 35. Weight in Grams: 504.
- Publisher
- Canongate Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781782110705
- ISBN
- 9781782110705
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.80
€ 17.99
€ 12.80
Paperback. Num Pages: 147 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1HFDN; 1KBB; BTC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 216 x 141 x 9. Weight in Grams: 192.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1998
- Publisher
- Nova Science Publishers Inc United States
- Number of pages
- 147
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781560722670
- ISBN
- 9781560722670
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 28.92
€ 40.99
€ 28.92
Hardback. The strange and terrible story of Alfred Packer, alleged man-eater and legend of 19th-century America's Western frontier. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWC; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 166 x 37. Weight in Grams: 614.
- Publisher
- Head of Zeus
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781781857403
- ISBN
- 9781781857403
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 18.37
€ 26.99
€ 18.37
Paperback. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Dimension: 231 x 153 x 27. Weight in Grams: 456.
- Publisher
- Amazon Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781503944213
- ISBN
- 9781503944213
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 15.51
€ 15.99
€ 15.51
Paperback.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Ballantine Books Inc.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780345524478
- ISBN
- 9780345524478
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 22.95
€ 23.99
€ 22.95
Paperback. The story of an ordinary American family struggling to help their teenage daughter recover from anorexia using a family based therapy called the Maudsley Approach which was developed in the UK. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: BT; VFJJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 131 x 197 x 17. Weight in Grams: 188.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780749955236
- ISBN
- 9780749955236
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.62
€ 14.99
€ 11.62
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1MTASF; BTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 158 x 198 x 28. Weight in Grams: 366.
- Publisher
- Cornerstone United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099568827
- ISBN
- 9780099568827
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.33
€ 14.99
€ 11.33
Paperback. Num Pages: 144 pages, 9 illus. BIC Classification: BT. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 140 x 10. Weight in Grams: 140.
- Publisher
- Hancock House Publishers Ltd ,Canada Canada
- Number of pages
- 144
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1990
- Edition
- 2nd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888392329
- ISBN
- 9780888392329
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 18.99€ 13.88
€ 18.99
€ 13.88
Paperback. A shocking insight into child abuse in Britain today as told by a Detective who worked in Child Protection. Num Pages: 288 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BTC; JFFE1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 20. Weight in Grams: 204.
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- KSG0019729
- ISBN
- 9781849832502
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Harry Markopolos and his team of financial sleuths discuss first-hand how they cracked the Madoff Ponzi scheme
No One Would Listen is the exclusive story of the Harry Markopolos-led investigation into Bernie Madoff and his $65 billion Ponzi scheme. Num Pages: 354 pages, Illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: BTC; KFF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 220 x 148 x 25. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Number of pages
- 354
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780470919002
- ISBN
- 9780470919002
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 25.99€ 19.00
€ 25.99
€ 19.00
paperback. In spite of the perpetrators' intentions, the Tokyo gas attack left only twelve people dead, but thousands were injured and many suffered serious after-effects. This title features the author's interviews with the victims to tried and established precisely what happened on the subway that day. Translator(s): Birnbaum, Alfred; Gabriel, Philip. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; BTC; HBJF; HBLW3; JPWL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 197 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- 9780099461098
- ISBN
- 9780099461098
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 12.99€ 12.05
€ 12.99
€ 12.05