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  • HISTORY'S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure. It would be wrong to condone their antics, of cours...

    $166.19

  • CRAFTY CROOKS & CONMEN
    NIGEL BLUNDELL / SUE BLACKHALL
    From Clifford Irving and his Howard Hughes hoax to the great imposter Frank "Catch Me if You Can" Abagnale—a fascinating history of the art of the con.   They're shrewd, cunning, devious—and charmingly trustworthy. While the criminal exploits of these tricksters, frauds, and swindlers can't be condoned, it's near-impossible not to be awed by their audacity and ingenuity.   Take...

    $251.00

  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    This book is a catalog of disaster – literally. Within its pages are the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century. It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet, an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced. The events recorded here...

    $127.81

  • FALLEN IDOLS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Its a scandal! How often we use that phrase and what a catalogue of sins it covers. Thats what this book is all about. It is literally a catalogue of sins committed by some of the most celebrated names on the planet.Within these covers are startling stories of scandals during a century when screen idols seemed to vie with each other in outraging public decency. It was an age wh...

    $149.00

  • WINSTON CHURCHILL
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Winston Churchill was an extraordinary person - a politician, a statesman, a man of letters and a soldier but it was for his wartime leadership during the Second World War that he is chiefly remembered. In a study of his life, certain bizarre character traits become discernible. He had excessive energy and required little sleep. His mind would either flit from one idea to anoth...

    $119.00

  • SERIAL KILLERS: THE WORLD'S MOST EVIL
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    One hundred years of the most depraved criminal minds—from H. H. Holmes and Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy, Ian Brady, and Myra Hindley.   Their monikers have become part of the true crime lexicon: among them, the Moors Murders; the Hillside Strangler; Killer Clown; Son of Sam; the Love Slave Killers; the Scorecard Killer; and the BTK Strangler. On a scale of evil, they are the w...

    $229.00

  • SERIAL KILLERS: BUTCHERS & CANNIBALS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    The body snatcher who inspired Psycho, the noblewoman known as Countess Dracula, Jack the Ripper, and other killers for whom murder was just the beginning.   From Gilles de Rais’ castle in fifteenth-century France to “the Bloody Benders’” eighteenth-century Kansas farm to Jeffrey Dahmer’s quiet apartment in twentieth-century Milwaukee, history is littered with serial murderers ...

    $229.00

  • SERIAL KILLERS: MURDER WITHOUT MERCY
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Charles Manson, Aileen Wuornos, Burke & Hare, the Boston Strangler, the Zodiac Killer, and other remorseless serial murderers whose crimes made history.   From Victorian era graveyards to a rented room in Paris to an isolated Indian farm and the California hills, the shocking murders collected in this true crime anthology span the century and the continents. The motivations are...

    $229.00

  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s ...

    $119.00

  • ADOLF HITLER
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A rare, revealing, and chilling photographic history of Adolf Hitler—from mollycoddled child to vile propagandist to despotic madman.   One of the most intriguing mysteries about the rise of history’s most despised dictator is just how utterly ordinary he once seemed. A chubby child, a mama’s boy, an idle student, a failed artist, self-pitying outcast, and just another face in ...

    $229.00

  • HISTORY’S MOST DARING ROGUES AND VILLAINS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    Gathered together within the pages of this book is a roguish array of artful tricksters, fantastic fakers, rascally fraudsters and cunning conmen. They all bend the rules and usually the law. Yet however reprehensible their misdeeds, these thoroughly rotten scoundrels often display the very essence of enterprise and adventure. It would be wrong to condone their antics, of cours...

    $166.19

  • A CENTURY OF MAN-MADE DISASTERS
    NIGEL BLUNDELL
    A pictorial history of the major man-made calamities that shocked the world throughout the twentieth century.   It was a period during which the power and scale of industrialization changed the planet—an unforeseen consequence being the creation of more human-created catastrophes than ever before experienced.   The events recorded here include the needless carnage of history’s ...

    $119.00