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  • Alan Turing

    The Enigma Man

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Spring 1940: The Battle of the Atlantic rages. Vulnerable merchant convoys are at the mercy of German U-boats controlled by a cunning system of coded messages created by a machine called Enigma. Only one man believes that these codes can be broken - mathematician and Bletchley Park cryptanalyst Alan Turing.Winston Churchill later described Turing's success in breaking the Enigma codes as the ... Leer más

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  • Against Their Will

    Sadistic Kidnappers and the Courageous Stories of Their Innocent Victims

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Real-life accounts of harrowing abductions and resilient survivors from the author of Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace.True stories of twisted criminals who hold their victims in endless captivity to satisfy their perverse desires, Against Their Will is a comprehensive compendium of the most disturbing kidnappings of all time.Jaycee Lee Dugard—lived to tell the tale of her eighteen ... Leer más

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  • History's Greatest Battles

    Masterstrokes of War

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Great battles mark history's turning points, occurring as they do where cultures and ideologies clash.While some battles have been won by the superior force, others have been won by a sheer dogged refusal to surrender in the face of overwhelming odds. Superior weaponry has sometimes brought victory, as at Plassey, while the superior generalship of a Napoleon, a Wellington, or a Marlborough has won ... Leer más

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  • Stalin

    The Murderous Career of the Red Tsar

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.'Joseph StalinWorshipped by the Russians as a great leader, Stalin was one of modern history's greatest tyrants, rivalling Hitler, Mao Zedong and Pol Pot. But he probably had more blood on his hands than any of them.Born Josef Dzhugashvili in Gori, Georgia in 1879, Stalin studied to be a priest while secretly reading the works of Karl ... Leer más

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  • The Story of the SS

    Hitler's Infamous Legions of Death

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'The best political weapon is the weapon of terror. Cruelty commands respect. Men may hate us. But, we don't ask for their love - only for their fear.'-Heinrich HimmlerThe Schutzstaffel, or SS - the brutal elite of the Nazi Party - was founded by Hitler in 1925 to be his personal bodyguard. From 1929 it was headed by Heinrich Himmler, who built its numbers up from under 300 to well over a million ... Leer más

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  • Prince Philip: I Know I Am Rude

    Prince Philip on Prince Philip

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'By far the funniest.' Telegraph From Prince Philip's blunt speech making, to his fearless mocking of officials and captains of industry, to his fond teasing of Her Majesty herself, here is a truly regal celebration of his unusual daily life in royal circles. ... Leer más

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  • Vietnam

    A War Lost and Won

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Vietnam was the first war America lost. It left the country bitterly divided. Many of the 2.7 million Americans who served there suffered psychologically for decades to come and the USA discovered that, for all its might and technological superiority, it could not defeat the ill-equipped peasant army of a small and fiercely determined enemy.In this concise account, historian Nigel Cawthorne traces ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A History of Pirates

    Blood and Thunder on the High Seas

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    The modern image of the pirate is derived from Captain Charles Johnson's accounts of the cut-throats who sailed under the Jolly Roger. It was he who gave mythical status to the likes of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd. Using contemporary sources, Nigel Cawthorne now turns the spotlight on the reality of pirate life, revealing the truth behind the legends. It gives us an insight into the men - and ... Leer más

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  • Public Executions

    From Ancient Rome to the Present Day

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    'The sentence of this court is that you be taken from this place to whence you came, and from there to a place of lawful execution, there to be hanged by the neck till you be dead, and may the Lord have mercy on your soul'-Extract from judicial death sentence, England c.16th-20th centurySocieties throughout history have adopted many and varied methods of meting out the ultimate sanction of capital ... Leer más

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  • Serial Killers & Mass Murderers

    Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Shocking true stories of the world's most notorious criminals from the author of Prince Andrew: Epstein, Maxwell and the Palace.Serial Killers & Mass Murderers takes you into the minds of the criminals who committed the world's most notorious and horrifying crimes. Each of the sadistic murderers profiled here was once known simply as someone's neighbor, co-worker or child. What turned them into ... Leer más

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  • Pirates

    The Truth Behind the Robbers of the High Seas

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    Pirates have an almost mythical status in the public imagination - we think of rogue heroes riding the high seas and 'X marks the spot'. But this image is flawed at best.Using contemporary sources, Nigel Cawthorne turns the spotlight on the reality of pirate life, revealing the truth behind the legends. It gives us an insight into ... ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Witch Hunt

    History of Persecution

    de Nigel Cawthorne ...
    When bigotry and power-mania take control, disaster always follows for ordinary people - even when the power is wielded by the Church. Witchcraft, of course, was seen as devil-worship. Those accused - over 100,000 people, mainly women, between 1450 and 1750 - were subjected to the most bestial tortures and usually executed.Witch Hunt examines the real facts of this persecution and the religious ... Leer más

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