Bloody London

Author : David Fathers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781844865529

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An entertaining, revealing and beautifully illustrated walking guide to London's horrific history, Bloody London features walks that take in everything from Jack the Ripper's haunts, to the 'Route of the Damned' from Newgate Prison to Tyburn, to Gangland London, to the plague outbreak hotspots and burial pits, to the key places involved in the Great Fire of London, plus many many more iconic and delightfully gruesome moments in London's history. Each walk is beautifully illustrated with a map and gorgeous illustrations, and the book is perfectly pocket-sized so you can easily take it around with you as you go. David Fathers is the king of London walking guides, and Bloody London will delight both those who live in London and those visiting who are looking for a walking guide that's a little bit different.

Author : Reggie Nadelson
Publisher : Random House
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781409007500

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Bloody London by Reggie Nadelson Pdf

As New York basks in a fine Indian summer, no one notices the feral teenagers in Central Park, or the homeless living by the river. Certainly no-one connects them to the Russian gangsters buying into respectability on the East Side, or to the dead Englishman in the swimming pool... Thomas Pascoe, a super-rich, elderly investment banker, is found gorily murdered on the day he was due to return to London, floating in the pool of the most exclusive apartment block in town. As head of the 'co-op' for the luxury apartments, where the residents own the shares, Pascoe had his say in who got to live in them, and who didn't. Could this be a motive for his murder? The investigation takes Artie Cohen to London, where the gripping plot unfolds with a series of murders, an encounter with his longtime girlfriend, and a meeting with a figure from the past. The momentum of apparently tangential events builds to a trademark thrilling conclusion.

Author : Declan McHugh
Publisher : Vacation Work Publications
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Crime
ISBN : 1780590695

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Bloody London by Declan McHugh Pdf

London's strangest and scariest people and places are brought vividly to life in this walk through the capital's dark side. Featuring serial killers, psychopaths, gangsters, ghosts and martyrs, here are fifty true stories from all corners of the city guaranteed to chill your bones.

Author : David Fathers
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781844865512

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Bloody London by David Fathers Pdf

An entertaining, revealing and beautifully illustrated walking guide to London's horrific history, Bloody London features walks that take in everything from Jack the Ripper's haunts, to the 'Route of the Damned' from Newgate Prison to Tyburn, to Gangland London, to the plague outbreak hotspots and burial pits, to the key places involved in the Great Fire of London, plus many many more iconic and delightfully gruesome moments in London's history. Each walk is beautifully illustrated with a map and gorgeous illustrations, and the book is perfectly pocket-sized so you can easily take it around with you as you go. David Fathers is the king of London walking guides, and Bloody London will delight both those who live in London and those visiting who are looking for a walking guide that's a little bit different.

Author : John D Wright
Publisher : Amber Books Ltd
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-03-24
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782745709

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Bloody History of London by John D Wright Pdf

Immensely entertaining and illustrated with 180 colour and black-&-white artworks, Bloody History of London is an engaging and highly informative exploration of almost 2,000 years of London history, from the highlights of London lowlife to the depravities of London’s high life.

Author : Louis A. Meyer
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Historical fiction
ISBN : 9780152167318

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Bloody Jack by Louis A. Meyer Pdf

"While disguised as a boy, Jacky Faber experiences adventure and romance on the high seas"--

Author : Declan McHugh
Publisher : Crimson
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 9781780591230

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Bloody London by Declan McHugh Pdf

Where did the real Jack the Ripper live? Which pub in London has been used more than any other by serial killers picking up their victims? Where was the capital's Gladiators’ Arena? Where in London did Anders Breivik, the Norwegian mass murderer, live as a child? Jack The Ripper (and 15 other London serial killers!), the Krays, Aleister Crowley, Ruth Ellis, Doctor John Dee, Sach and Walters the baby farmers – all these characters and more are covered in Bloody London, a unique and terrifying walk through the dark, gore-drenched streets of the capital. A must-have for fans of crime, horror, the supernatural and the simply bizarre, Bloody London will also show you: • Sites of executions and unsolved murders • London’s creepiest cemeteries • Where famous horror authors lived and worked • Where the Plague originated • A haunted church and many other locations… London’s dark and shocking secrets are laid bare in this compendium of true stories. We dare you to look inside…

Author : Alan Weeks
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-12-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780752462585

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Bloody Picnic by Alan Weeks Pdf

One of the crucial factors which kept Tommy going on the Western Front was his facility to see what was comic in the horror, deprivation and discomfort of trench warfare, an attitude which blossomed further in the rest areas behind the lines. The nature of the comedy ranged from gentle irony to a rougher hilarity that produced on belly laughs. Such laughter could arise from extreme physical pain and discomfort, from the provision of sustenance and from matters relating to dress, equipment and weapons. A further source of fun was bizarre events not dissimilar to situation comedy and pantomime. Moreover, a whole culture of humour surrounded Tommy’s words and songs, and many trench pets – cats, dogs, horses, goats, even rats – were in on the joke in one way or another. Nor was it only the British soldiers who managed to find something to laugh about in the trenches – the Germans could sometimes see the funny side as well. A Bloody Picnic provides an unusual perspective on how soldiers coped with the grim realities of the First World War.

Author : Valerie Wilding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2009-05-01
Category : Executions and executioners
ISBN : 054598548X

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My Story by Valerie Wilding Pdf

The Tower of London: Palace. Fortress. Prison. In February 1554, Lady Jane Grey,queen for just nine days is sentenced to a traitor's death at the age of sixteen. Manysay she does not deserve to die, but the Bloody Tower will have no mercy on her.Young Tilly Middleton also lives in the castle. As she watches the plots and politicsof the court unfolding she records her thoughts and fears in her diary. Through hereyes, the reader is transported back to these turbulent times, and waits with batedbreath, along with Tilly, as she looks for a chance to deliver a very important letter-- one that could change the course of history and the fate of Lady Jane Grey.

Author : David Skene-Melvin
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-12-19
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781459727397

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Bloody York by David Skene-Melvin Pdf

Thirteen Canadian writers from the late nineteenth century to today find intrigue, mystery, and terror in the familiar streets and places of Toronto.

Author : Reggie NADELSON
Publisher : CCV Digital
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1409007510

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Bloody London (kindle) by Reggie NADELSON Pdf

Author : Boston Athenaeum
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 738 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : American literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080249329

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Catalogue of the Library of the Boston Athenaeum by Boston Athenaeum Pdf

Author : Peter Hart
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780225715

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Bloody April by Peter Hart Pdf

The story of the decimation of the Royal Flying Corps over Arras in 1917 As the Allies embarked upon the Battle of Arras, they desperately needed accurate aerial reconnaissance photographs. But by this point the Royal Flying Club were flying obsolete planes. The new German Albatros scouts massively outclassed them in every respect: speed, armament, ability to withstand punishment and manoeuverability. Many of the RFC's pilots were straight out of flying school - as they took to the air they were sitting targets for the experienced German aces. Over the course of 'Bloody April' the RFC suffered casualties of over a third. The average life expectancy of a new subaltern on the front line dropped to just eleven days. And yet they carried on flying, day after day, in the knowledge that, in the eyes of their commanders at least, their own lives meant nothing compared to the photographs they brought back, which could save tens of thousands of soldiers on the ground. In this book Peter Hart tells the story of the air war over Arras, using the voices of the men who were actually there.

Author : Alan Allport
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 441 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300213126

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Browned Off and Bloody-Minded by Alan Allport Pdf

More than three-and-a-half million men served in the British Army during the Second World War, the vast majority of them civilians who had never expected to become soldiers and had little idea what military life, with all its strange rituals, discomforts, and dangers, was going to be like. Alan Allport’s rich and luminous social history examines the experience of the greatest and most terrible war in history from the perspective of these ordinary, extraordinary men, who were plucked from their peacetime families and workplaces and sent to fight for King and Country. Allport chronicles the huge diversity of their wartime trajectories, tracing how soldiers responded to and were shaped by their years with the British Army, and how that army, however reluctantly, had to accommodate itself to them. Touching on issues of class, sex, crime, trauma, and national identity, through a colorful multitude of fresh individual perspectives, the book provides an enlightening, deeply moving perspective on how a generation of very modern-minded young men responded to the challenges of a brutal and disorienting conflict.

Author : Keir Milburn
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 79 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2019-06-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781509532261

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Generation Left by Keir Milburn Pdf

Increasingly age appears to be the key dividing line in contemporary politics. Young people across the globe are embracing left-wing ideas and supporting figures such as Corbyn and Sanders. Where has this ‘Generation Left’ come from? How can it change the world? This compelling book by Keir Milburn traces the story of Generation Left. Emerging in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crash, it has now entered the electoral arena and found itself vying for dominance with ageing right-leaning voters and a ‘Third Way’ political elite unable to accept the new realities. By offering a new concept of political generations, Milburn unveils the ideas, attitudes and direction of Generation Left and explains how the age gap can be bridged by reinventing youth and adulthood. This book is essential reading for anyone, young or old, who is interested in addressing the multiple crises of our time.