True stories books

These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography. Carefully selected for their accessibility and...  Read More >>

These essays chart major contributions to recent historiography. Carefully selected for their accessibility and...  Read More >>

Written by a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, this tells the true story of an all-American war hero, Dick O'Kane and...  Read More >>

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The Author, a German National, was interned by the British at Dehra Dun in India. In 1942, he and a colleague, Heins...  Read More >>

The Edgar Award-winning true-crime story follows a Texas socialite's mysterious death and her unfaithful husband's...  Read More >>

The ""Los Angeles Times"" bestselling autobiography of America's toughest prison writer centers on Bunker's education...  Read More >>

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Horrific, disturbing and absolutely fascinating is Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, the sequel to HBO's award-winning...  Read More >>

Having succumbed to the mañana pace of rural Mallorca, Peter Kerr and family relax into a supposedly simpler way...  Read More >>

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This groundbreaking text examines for the first time the nature and consequences of crime on the internet, and analyses...  Read More >>

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The kidnapping of the first son of aviator Charles Lindbergh became the crime of the century and defined ""media...  Read More >>

A true-life Wild West story set in Australia, involving murder, gun battles, a huge posse and the largest manhunt...  Read More >>

The West was still wild in South Texas in the 1880s and 1890s for a rich Anglo landowner and a Mexican hired gun-outlaw-lawman....  Read More >>

The kidnapping of the first son of aviator Charles Lindbergh became the crime of the century and defined ""media...  Read More >>

A tale of the power of love and forgiveness in a Japanese prisoner of war camp.  Read More >>

From 1959-64, Eric Cooke, a prowler turned multiple murderer was held in dread by middle-class Perth, Australia....  Read More >>

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Why do true crime stories exert such popular fascination? Embracing a range of non-fiction accounts - true crime...  Read More >>

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Tales macabre and tales bizarre; all of them with murder in mind. Another evocative series of murder cases from...  Read More >>

The shocking true story is presented of Detroit lawyer Michael Fletcher, convicted of murdering his pregnant wife,...  Read More >>

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