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This is the true story of Colonel Edward Marcus Despard, the character in the fifth series of the BBC's popular television drama Poldark. Colonel Despard was the last person to be sentenced to hanging, drawing and quartering in Britain - for high treason, an alleged...
Editeur : Robinson
Parution : 2019-08-01
Format(s) : ePub
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Overcoming the taboos around women's cancersThis book is the testimony of a committed woman, who bares her soul to lift the taboos weighing upon women's femininity, sexuality, and professional life, when they are affected in their own esh by illness.
In August 2013,...
Editeur : Cherche Midi
Parution : 2019-05-20
Format(s) : ePub sans DRM
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This is the latest edition of Colin Smith's best selling - it was translated into Spanish, French, German and Finnish -1976 biography of the Venezuelan born terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez. Carlos - Portrait of a Terrorist is the result of painstaking research. Here is...
Editeur : Penguin
Parution : 2012-04-05
Format(s) : ePub
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Having become increasingly concerned about the rise in crime and the softly-softly approach to punishing offenders, Joan Jonker realised that little was being done for the victims of crime. She set up the charity Victims of Violence and went on to raise over two million...
Editeur : Headline
Parution : 2012-02-02
Format(s) : ePub
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A riveting lineup of the world's most famous and infamous arrests, from Lizzie Borden (double murder) to Lindsay Lohan (DUI) to Roman Polanski (unlawful sexual intercourse) Although the headlines fade, the humiliation, vulnerability, and sometimes chilling smugness of...
Editeur : Black Dog & Leventhal
Parution : 2011-12-12
Format(s) : ePub
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A trailblazing study of the social bandit or rebelBANDITS is a study of the social bandit or bandit-rebel - robbers and outlaws who are not regarded by public opinion as simple criminals, but rather as champions of social justice, as avengers or as primitive resistance...
Editeur : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution : 2010-12-30
Format(s) : ePub
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30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and 'NdranghetaImages of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality? Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever...
Editeur : C & r Crime
Parution : 2009-06-25
Collection :
Mammoth Books
Format(s) : ePub
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In June 1948, 27-year-old petty criminal Caryl Chessman was sentenced in California on two counts of sexual assault, receiving two death sentences as punishment in a case that remains one of the most baffling episodes in American legal history. Maintaining his innocence...
Editeur : Da Capo Press
Parution : 2009-03-25
Format(s) : ePub
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Only 200 people have ever been in Christopher Whitcomb's elite branch of the F.B.I. The Hostage Rescue Team is its most highly trained and specialized squadron -- equivalent to the Navy's Seals and the Army's Delta Force -- charged with terrorist capture, hostage...
Editeur : Grand Central Publishing
Parution : 2008-11-15
Format(s) : ePub
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