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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781848843271
This book features the design, creation and use of air raid shelters, including interviews with people who used them during the Second World War. The different types of bunkers/air raid shelters (both public and in peoples gardens) are covered and the strength and weakness of their designs discussed...more details Format:Hardback Pages:192
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781845631291
Prison is an unknown world for most of us. It is a place where time stops and lives are held in suspension, taken out of circulation. Amongst the jail population are the dangerous inmates: killers and rapists...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:224
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780709093275
Criminal River explores the social and legal history of the police on the River Thames, from the founding of the Thames Marine Police in 1798 to the contemporary establishment working in co-operation with other security and crime prevention organizations....more details Format:Hardback Pages:256
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781848841802
The Anglo-Zulu War may be best remembered for the military blundering that led to the astonishing British defeat at Isandlwana, but as Stephen Wade shows in this book...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:183
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781845630270
In "Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths in Grimsby and Cleethorpes", Stephen Wade provides a dramatic set of stories from around the area, ranging from Medieval to the mid-Twentieth Century. Many of the tales are about jealous lovers...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781845630003
Presents stories from the dark history of Liverpool that inform us of the violent and tragic lives of people caught up in poisionings, brawls and riots. Some of the tales in this work are set in families suffering serial murder...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780750951104
"Hanged at Lincoln" gathers together the stories of criminals hanged at both Lincoln Castle Prison and HMP Lincoln on Greetwell Road between 1716 and 1961. The condemned featured here range from coiners and forgers to thieves...more details Format:Paperback Pages:111
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780750950428
Hanged at York gathers together the stories of criminals
hanged at York from the middle of the eighteenth century
to the late nineteenth century. The condemned featured
here ranged from coiners and forgers to murderers...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780313321825
An overview of 19th- and 20th-century writing from the British Isles shows a constant interplay between metropolitan centers and regional peripheries--an interplay that points to the basic importance of place and belonging in literary creation and evaluation. This volume examines the relationship between British literature--including poetry...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:192
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781579581961
Jewish American writing is an exciting and controversial genre within post-war literature. Jewish American Literature since 1945 offers a student guide to the major writers...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:180
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780750943215
"Lincolnshire Murders" is a collection of the stories
behind some of the murders in the county since about
1850. Many were sensational in their time: killings
involving poison...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:160
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781845631307
The word "murder" has always attracted widespread local and national media coverage. Once known, the story becomes the subject of discussion in a variety of places throughout the land. Some grisly tales become part of a culture that lives on for generations; whilst others...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:192
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780752441863
The detective is a familiar figure in British history, from the Victorian truncheon-bearing bobby to the undercover sleuth of the twenty-first century. But there is much in the history of our investigative police force that remains in the dark. Using detective training manuals...more details Format:Hardback
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781843312628
There have been a great many books written on military intelligence and the secret services rooted in the twentieth century; however there is very little covering the activities of the men involved in the establishment of this fascinating institution. Its origins lie in the British Army: from the beginnings in the Topographical Department to the Boer War...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:290
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781842851432
Who else wants to be able to analyse the War Poets? There is a profound sense of discovery for each generation who comes to read the work of the war poets. The reader has to comprehend the sheer enormity and loss of life in a theatre that was at once hellish and paradoxically a cause of massive social change. In this Studymate...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781848840577
Did you have a criminal in the family, an ancestor who was caught on the wrong side of the law? If you have ever had any suspicions about the illicit activities of your relatives...more details Format:Paperback Pages:176
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9781848842267
The law had as much influence on our ancestors as it does on us today, and it occupies an extraordinary range of individuals, from eminent judges and barristers to clerks and minor officials. Yet...more details Format:Paperback Pages:177
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Stephen Wade
ISBN:9780709092445
Tyranny and the Lash offers a rare insight into the world of crime and punishment. It investigates the changing definitions of criminality that occur when the law adapts to the radical transmutations of society caused by warfare...more details Format:Hardback Pages:224
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WADE STEPHEN
ISBN:9781845631055
A daily newspaper in February 2009 has an image of an old man shackled to a police officer by handcuffs. It looks like any other arrest and detention...more details Format:Hardback
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Manly Wade Wellman;Stephen Pelan JohnJones
ISBN:9781892389213
Fearful Rock and Other Precarious Locales is the 3rd volume of Night Shade Books' five volume "Selected Stories of Manly Wade Wellman." This volume is made up of eight novella length stories. It reprints Wellman's "Judge Pursivant" and "Sergeant Jaeger" stories...more details Format:Hardcover Pages:296
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WADE STEPHEN
ISBN:9781845631109
Doncaster has wide world fame as a railway town. For many years the name was associated with engineering, transport and of course coal. But there is a darker aspect to its history. The sinister side is explored through the research and writing of an experienced crime historian. Sensational tales have been uncovered concerning a variety of dark deeds...more details Format:Paperback / softback
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Barrie Wade;Kristina Stephenson
ISBN:9781404800571
Introduce young readers to the captivating world of classic fairy tales in this beautifully illustrated easy-reader series....more details Format:Hardcover Pages:31
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Stephen M Shuster;Michael J Wade
ISBN:9780691049311
This book presents the first unified conceptual and statistical framework for understanding the evolution of reproductive strategies. Using the concept of the opportunity for sexual selection...more details Format:Paperback Pages:520
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Wanda Wade Mukherjee;Charter Anderson StephenWeeks
ISBN:9780970172648
A sinfully delightful collection of 50 short stories by established and up-and-coming writers from across the United States, Canada and South Africa. Melding art with craft...more details Format:Paperback Pages:264
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Wade Stephen
ISBN:9781848685482
The Roman Empire depended on its roads and walls for trade and
security, but before they could be built, their courses had to be
chosen and their lines set. In the absence of any significant
Roman literature on the subject...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:176
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Wade Stephen
ISBN:9781848682337
Thomas Rowlandson was one of the most productive and influential
artists of Britain's Regency years. He worked hard and enjoyed
the company of friends and fellow artists...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:128
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Wade Stephen
ISBN:9780750949521
Square Mile Bobbies is a history and casebook of the City of
London Police between 1839, when the force was first
established after general recognition that London was not
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WADE STEPHEN
ISBN:9781844158782
Tracing Your Police Ancestors will help you locate and research officers who served in any of the police forces of England and Wales from the creation of the Metropolitan Police by Sir Robert Peel in 1829. Assuming that the reader has no prior knowledge of how or where to look for such information...more details Format:Paperback / softback Pages:146
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Wade Stephen
ISBN:9780752445359
Covering the lives and achievements of five English intelligence officers involved in wars at home and abroad between 1870 and 1918, this exceptionally researched book offers an insight into spying in the age of Victoria. Including material from little-known sources such as memoirs...more details Format:Hardback