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  • Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula

    An Illustrated Biography

    Previously unpublished research sheds new light on how Bram Stoker researched and wrote Dracula and the people who inspired his characters. Bram Stoker: Author of Dracula is an affectionate and revealing biography of the man who created the vampire novel that would define the genre and lead to a new age in Gothic horror literature. Based on decades of painstaking research in libraries, museums, ... Read more

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  • East End Murders

    From Jack the Ripper to Ronnie Kray

    by Neil R Storey ...
    Series series True Crime History
    Neil R. Storey has drawn on a vast array of original sources - among them witness statements, coroners' reports and court records - to produce a revealing insight into the East End's darkest moments. As well as the murders of Jack the Ripper, perhaps the most infamous in history, he looks at nine other cases in detail: the still mysterious Ratcliffe Highway Murders of 1811; Henry Wainwright, who ... Read more

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  • Prisons and Prisoners in Victorian Britain

    by Neil R Storey ...
    Prisons and Prisoners In Victorian Britain provides an illustrated insight into the Victorian prison system and the experiences of those within it - on both sides of the bars. Featuring stories of crime and misdeeds, this fascinating book includes chapters on a typical day inside a Victorian prison - food, divine service, exercise and medical provision; the punishments inflicted on convicts - such ... Read more

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  • Beating the Nazi Invader

    Hitler's Spies, Saboteurs and Secrets in Britain 1940

    "A compelling examination of an aspect of World War II that always has a rapt audience: espionage . . . With a cast of colorful characters." — Library Journal (starred review)Beating the Nazi Invader is a revealing and disturbing exploration of the darker history of Nazis, spies and "Fifth Columnist" saboteurs in Britain, and the extensive top-secret countermeasures taken before and during the ... Read more

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  • Electronics

    A Systems Approach

    by Neil Storey ...
    Electronics plays a central role in our everyday lives. It is at the heart of almost all of today’s essential technology, from mobile phones to computers and from cars to power stations. As such, all engineers, scientists and technologists need to have a fundamental understanding of this exciting subject, and for many this will just be the beginning.Now in its sixth edition, Electronics: A Systems ... Read more

    $60.49 CAD

  • The Blackout Murders

    Homicide in WW2

    Nostalgic recollections of wartime Britain often forget that when the blackout was enforced at night in an attempt to foil Nazi bombers a crime wave, cloaked by the inky black darkness, ensued on many of our streets. There were petty crimes, robberies, sexual assaults and, as The Blackout Murders reveals, some horrific murders took place on our home front during the Second World War. Some of them ... Read more

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  • Wartime Industry

    Series Book 892 - Shire Library
    An illustrated introduction to how British industries, supported by thousands of newly recruited women, strove to meet the nation's wartime need for munitions, armour, shipping, uniforms and aircraft.During the Second World War (1939–45), Britain stretched every sinew of its industrial might to fend off a Nazi invasion. As the nation stood alone against Fortress Europe, it harnessed, coordinated ... Read more

    $12.19 CAD

  • The Murder of PC Gutteridge

    Britain's Underworld in the Roaring Twenties

    PC George William Gutteridge was a well-liked and respected village policeman for Stapleford Abbotts in rural Essex, where he lived with his wife and two young children. While on his beat out on a lonely country road in the early hours of the morning of 27 September 1927, he was gunned down in one of the most horrific and callous killings of a police officer in the history of British law ... Read more

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  • Nazi Spies & Collaborators in Britain, 1939–1945

    "...reveals the climate of fear along with the identities and case studies of suspected collaborators in key invasion areas." —ARGunners.comThe true extent of Nazi secret agent activity in Britain during the Second World War has received little attention. In large part this is due to the highly classified nature of the subject. This fascinating book uses recently released documents to explore how ... Read more

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  • UFOs Over Britain

    The first reported UFO sightings in Britain during modern times date back to the early years of the twentieth century and have continued through two World Wars up to the present day. Cases include mystery airships of 1909 at Peterborough and the eastern counties, the Burton Dassett ghost lights of 1923, RAF gremlins in the Second World War, the Newbiggin abduction in 1942, Dorothy Kilgallen and ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD

  • Victorian Fashions for Women

    A delightfully illustrated history of women's wear in Victorian England, with decade-by-decade details of the styles—and the lifestyles they represented.Victorian Fashions for Women explores British styles and clothing throughout the long reign of Queen Victoria, from the late 1830s to the first years of the twentieth century. It provides a superb overview of the dresses, hats, hairstyles, ... Read more

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  • The Hangman's Scrapbook

    The Life and Executions of John Ellis

    John Ellis, Britain's executioner from 1901-1924, hanged over 200 criminals, including infamous murderers and traitors. During his years as executioner between 1901 and 1924, John Ellis hanged over 200 men and women. Among them were some of the most infamous killers of the 20th century including Dr Crippen, John Dickman 'The Railway Murderer', George Smith 'The Brides in the Bath' murderer, Henry ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus