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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780762444083
The complete guide to the world's most famous detective. Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Homes appears in four novels and fifty-six short stories and continues to have a perennial allure as the ultimate sleuth. In this outstanding introduction...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:420
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780762438518
The story of Robin Hood contains compelling narratives of crusades and outlaws and has become a symbol for justice in an unjust world. Robin Hood became a hero over the centuries and has been immortalized in books...more details Format:Paperback Pages:248
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781780330129
Created by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle in 1887, Sherlock Holmes appears in four novels and fifty-six short stories. Although Holmes was not the first literary detective...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:280
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780785818564
This book looks at the reality behind the legends of Blackbeard, Calico Jack Rackham and several other cutthroats who sailed the high seas. It portrays the pirates...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
Once again, Nigel Cawthorne takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the strange, hidden sexual history of England. The history of sex in Britain has been largely glossed over by 'proper' historians: Nigel Cawthorne has burrowed deep into the archives to reveal exactly what our ancestors got up to in bed (and out of it)...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781843582908
This insightful book examines how the relationship between our special forces and their American counterparts has developed, as they try to stabilise a volatile region...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:288
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781844544707
For a nation with a long and proud military tradition, one token stands above all others as a mark of recognition for the ultimate acts of individual feats of arms: the Victoria Cross...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:287
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781845298210
This is 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...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781602397996
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...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:332
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781904950110
This will be the first in a series on the Roman Caesars, which will include titles on Augustus, Claudius and Constantine....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781845296315
Fact: murderers and serial killers do not always get caught. Behind every headline of a newsworthy conviction lie other cases of vicious murderers who got away...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781840244854
It was an ordinary semi-detached with grubby walls and net curtains. A young man answered the door to police officers with a search warrant, intent on digging up the back garden. The house was 25 Cromwell Street; the man the eldest son of Fred and Rose West. The world's most shocking murderers were somebody's neighbour...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781904341567
Alexander the Great (born 356BC), King of Macedon, Greece lived according to mythical proportions. Inspired by Homer's epics, he modelled himself on Achilles and slept with a copy of the Iliad annotated by Aristotle...more details Format:Paperback Pages:181
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781844547333
After the horrors of 9/11, the British armed forces were called upon to by the government to engage new enemies in faraway lands. Royal Marines led British troops into Afghanistan in 2002 to oust the Taliban and scatter al-Qaeda. Then in March 2003...more details Format:Paperback Pages:280
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780572032920
Based on contemporaneous accounts from both pirates and their victims, this book portrays the pirates, their weapons, their ships, their victims and the historical background to the saltwater tales of both pirates and those in the navy...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780785820345
Based on contemporaneous accounts from the point of view of both the pirates and their victims, this book presents a gripping account of the men and women who chose to live their lives outside of the law. A breathtaking history of piracy in all its forms...more details Format:Hardback Pages:144
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781844548071
In November 2008, Somali pirates seized the Sirius Star, a supertanker carrying $100 million worth of oil, and demanded a $25 million ransom for its return. This story...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:276
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781843582557
Looks at the attacks that have taken place in the Malacca Straits, the Gulf of Guinea, and off the coast of Bangladesh, and questions how international peacekeeping forces can try to bring stability and security back to the oceans of the world Piracy is rife in the South China Sea and has returned to the Caribbean and South America...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:276
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781841933269
An illustrated history is a comprehensive account of piracy and pirates, from the early Romans to the 19th century....more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780572032760
Looks at one of society's modern taboos - the State-sanctioned killing of its own citizens. This book examines the methods of sanctioned killing and shows that although we regard public practices with horror...more details Format:Hardback Pages:208
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780785821199
Although public executions were outlawed in Britain in 1868 and in the United States in 1936, there are still a great many countries around the world where this practice is common...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780715322826
Gives an insight into the events of World War II through the eyes of those who fought against the Allied forces in various theatres of the war. This work features many accounts of the war from German and Japanese soldiers...more details Format:Hardback Pages:288
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780715327302
This title offers an amazing insight into the events of World War II through the eyes of those who fought against the Allied forces in all theatres of the war.It features many previously unpublished accounts of the war from German and Japanese soldiers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:336
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755545
Over the years some gay men, such as Oscar Wilde, suffered for their sexuality. Others, such as Quentin Crisp, made a career out of it. Noel Coward could not have been more camp. J. Edgar Hoover hid his sexuality whilst openly persecuting other homosexuals...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:256
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755552
Irresistible look at the sex lives of some of the worl's most famous lesbians. Covers a selection of famous names throughout the ages, Virginia Woolf...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:272
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755446
It is said that men become artists so that they can persuade attractive young women - or in some cases men - to take their clothes off. It is also said that the artist and his or her muse are frequently lovers. So what really made Picasso...more details Format:Paperback Pages:248
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755422
Liszt discovered groupies a hundred years before Mick Jagger; It was adultery that consigned the amorous Amadeus to a pauper's grave and syphilis that left Schubert's symphony unfinished; Father of 20 legitimate children...more details Format:Paperback Pages:243
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755453
Power corrupts; absolute power is even more fun. At least that's what many of the world's great dictators found. Sex Lives of the Great Dictators is a look at the bedroom antics of the most powerful...more details Format:Paperback Pages:282
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755149
In the previous volume Nigel Cawthorne lifted the lid on Hollywood sex - the wild parties, secret lovers, sordid pasts and tragic endings - and in this new volume he does the same for a whole batch of new screen legends including Ingrid Bergman...more details Format:Paperback Pages:288
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755248
Following on from his previous series of successful 'Sex Lives' books, Nigel Cawthorne now tackles the steamy world of movies and their stars. Included are true tales concerning Joan Crawford...more details Format:Paperback
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755361
Prion's internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:249
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755460
Prion's internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics...more details Format:Paperback Pages:280
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781853755569
The Romans were known to be a particular depraved when it came to sex, in fact, their sex lives are notorious. And is it any wonder? In Italy...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781844547821
British special forces lead the world. The Green Berets and Delta Force in the U.S. and the special forces in other countries are based on the UK's SAS and SBS. Nigel Cawthorne looks into the activities of the British special forces since the September 11 attacks. They have close ties with the American special forces...more details Format:Paperback Pages:286
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781862548572
This investigation into spree killing analyses the psychology of this chilling and relatively new phenomenon. Cawthorne examines each case and shows how the killers suppress their rage and violent fantasies until a small incident sparks their fatal rampage...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:272
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780749950361
A fun and fascinating tour of the by-ways of British legal history. Did you know that the law requiring a London taxi driver to carry a bale of hay on top of his cab to feed the horse was in force until 1976...more details Format:Hardback Pages:266
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780749950729
Another highly entertaining trawl through the byways of English history by the author of The Strange Laws of Old England The history of medicine in Britain is full of the most bizarre cures for all manner of ailments...more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780762433827
By far the most comprehensive and up-to-date guide to American and British Special Forces, this volume covers every aspect of their equipment...more details Format:Paperback Pages:551
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780786719747
The cases covered in this alarming book include: Argentina's crazed highway killer, responsible for mutilating and killing at least five people since 1997 and dumping their bodies along remote highways The Green River Killer...more details Format:Paperback Pages:496
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781780330020
Features accounts of over 30 contemporary cases, or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science. This title covers cases such as: the abduction of Madeleine McCann; the vindication of Colin Stagg...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780762444694
Release Date: 03 July 2012 This fresh look at crime scene investigations focuses on gruesome crimes the world over. Most of the cases are modern or have recently been reopened...more details Format:Paperback Pages:512
Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi, infiltrators and award-winning writers....more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:512
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780785827146
Author Nigel Cawthorne provides a concise, yet detailed look at one of the most chilling organizations ever conceived by the human imagination...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:208
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781569759301
THE ULTIMATE WARRIORS Highly trained and equipped to kill, special-ops forces take on the world's most dangerous and courageous missions...more details Format:Paperback Pages:320
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780785818588
This book examines the persecution and the religious hysteria that inspired the witch hunts of 1450-1750, tracing its roots back to the savage suppression of the heretical Waldensian sect by the Catholic Church....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:240
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9780785821243
Using contemporaneous court reports, depositions, letters, confessions and detailed written accounts, the author builds a terrifying picture of a world beset by the collective mania that was the witch hunt...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:144
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Nigel Cawthorne
ISBN:9781844547456
There are plenty of misguided, violent, and unpleasant people in the world, but how many can be classified as truly evil? In this hard-hitting collection...more details Format:Paperback Pages:245
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Nigel CAWTHORNE
ISBN:9781903318768
It is said that "The Who" made Tommy and Tommy made "The Who". Until 1969, "The Who" were little known in the US. Due to legal problems with the producer Shel Talmy they recorded much less than the other bands of the 1960s and were constantly on tour to make money. Then came Tommy...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Nigel CAWTHORNE
ISBN:9781903318782
In April 1989 The Stone Roses released their debut album, the eponymous "The Stone Roses". Setting the album in the context of the Manchester scene at the time and the subsequent career of the band...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Cawthorne Nigel
ISBN:9781845664459
For guitar fans everywhere, this book is packed with exciting facts, anecdotes, quotes, lists, historical and just plain bizarre stuff, lavishly illustrated and edited to keep you turning the pages right through to the end!...more details Format:Spiral Bound Pages:192
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CAWTHORNE NIGEL
ISBN:9781848660410
Throughout history, courageous groups of men have demonstrated their prowess in battle and indefatigable fighting spirit through episodes of human sacrifice and displays of extreme loyalty...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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Cawthorne Nigel
ISBN:9780749929527
Once again, Nigel Cawthorne takes the reader on a fascinating journey through the strange, hidden sexual history of England. The history of sex in Britain has been largely glossed over by 'proper' historians: Nigel Cawthorne has burrowed deep into the archives to reveal exactly what our ancestors got up to in bed (and out of it)...more details Format:Paperback Pages:274
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Cawthorne Nigel
ISBN:9781848660618
Pervets reveals the sex secrets of 50 of history s greatest figures: from the sexual excesses of the Roman Emperors Caligula and Nero to the masochist tendencies...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Cawthorne Nigel
ISBN:9781848378216
Merciless fanatics in black uniform and jackboots, the SS systematically slaughtered, tortured and enslaved millions. This is the story of the...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:208
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Cawthorne Nigel
ISBN:9781849160254
A searing, gripping selection of the terrifying and often brutal crimes that result when people take the law into their own handsAcross Britain more and more people are choosing to ignore the criminal justice system and exact their own form of primitive revenge. On 1 November 2008...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Cawthorne Nigel
ISBN:9780857344236
World War II - one of the most defining periods of the 20th century, and the costliest in terms of human life. World War II's comprehensive account...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:304