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Plausible Crime Stories
This first study of the legal history of sex offences in Mandate Palestine pioneers a new socio-cultural perspective on evidence.
Ronnie Biggs - The Inside Story
Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story, written by two of Ronnie Biggs's closest friends and most ardent supporters, delivers exactly what it says on the label, giving a very personal, unique and yet disturbing insight into the mind and subsequent treatment by the judicial and penal systems of the man that became a legendary household name for his role in one of Britain's most notorious crimes, the Great Train Robbery of 1963, and his subsequent life on the run upon his escape from prison in 1965. Raising pointed questions and dispelling many myths, the story makes one wonder who is the greater criminal: the carpenter that played a bit part in an unarmed robbery 45 years ago, who has remained incarc...
The Serendipitous Evolution of the Balfour Declaration of November 2, 1917
The Balfour Declaration was one of the most important events in the history of the Jewish people prior to the Holocaust, signaling the beginning of a new era of self-determination in the reconstituted Jewish homeland. This book provides an all-inclusive understanding of the complex geopolitical elements that shaped the facts on the ground in the Middle East. Analyzing the chain of events that led to the Balfour Declaration through a uniquely holistic approach, it demonstrates how the national interests of the nations involved in the World War I theater intersected with those of the Jewish nation in the final phase of its long march towards political sovereignty. Like the multiple parts of pr...
Britain's Unfulfilled Mandate for Palestine
This book provides an in-depth survey of Britain’s Mandate in Palestine, an issue crucial to understanding the continuing atmosphere of mistrust and violence in the region that continues to the present. At the conclusion of the First World War (1914–18), the League of Nations awarded a Mandate to Great Britain, which entailed governing a part of the defunct Ottoman Empire, a part which became known as Palestine. The Mandate, empowering Britain to govern this area for an unspecified period, had as one of its main objectives the understanding that Britain would assist the Zionist Movement in the creation of a Homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine. During the thirty years that Britain...
Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy
A New York Times–bestseller from an intelligence insider reveals the “fascinating new research” revealing Hemingway’s hidden life in espionage (New York Review of Books). A riveting epic, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway’s secret adventures in espionage and intelligence. While he was the historian at the CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, former American intelligence officer and U.S. Marine colonel, uncovered clues suggesting the Nobel Prize-winning novelist was deeply involved in spycraft. Now Reynolds's captivating narrative “looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before” (London Review of Books), revealing for the first tim...
Reynold de Burgh: The Dark Knight
The "black sheep" of the de Burgh family is a title Reynold wears well. Outcast and injured, this knight is journeying alone. But his bitter pilgrimage is interrupted by a very determined damsel who holds him to his knight's vow—to protect and serve! Sabina Sexton knows her reluctant rescuer is skeptical about her quest. But the danger is very real, and wary Sabina must place her life—and her heart—in this dark and dangerously attractive knight's keeping….
Chinook
Ein uralter Fluch. Ein unheimlicher Campingplatz. Hundert verschiedene Arten zu sterben. Der Soldat Nick Preston wird an Heiligabend in den Rocky Mountains von einem Schneesturm überrascht. Durch Zufall lernt er die junge Mutter Susan sowie ihre Tochter Lucy an einer Tankstelle kennen. Da sich das Wetter verschlechtert, beschließen die drei, auf dem Campingplatz Heaven's Gate zu übernachten. Ein himmlisches Fleckchen Erde. Glaubt Nick. Aber die weihnachtliche Idylle trügt. Auf Heaven's Gate lastet ein grausamer Fluch, der die Toten nicht ruhen lässt und jeden Besucher in den Selbstmord treibt. Für Nick entbrennt ein gnadenloser Kampf ums Überleben. Denn Susan und Lucy verfallen schon bald den teuflischen Mächten und beginnen damit, sich Furchtbares anzutun. Und plötzlich spürt auch Nick, wie er schrecklich müde wird. Lebensmüde ...
