Nigel Cawthorne

CELTAS Y GERMANOS CONTRA ROMA FRANCISCO GRACIA EXPERTO EN LA GUERRA EN LA PROTOHISTORIA ANALIZA LOS ENFRENTA- MIENTO DESDE COMIEZOS DEL SIGLO. IV A.C. HASTA EL SIGLO I D.C. "Una obra, pues, que desgrana unos acontecimientos apasionantes y necesarias para comprender por qué Europa es lo que es, pero que , además, se lee como un entretenido libro de historia militar" No 9 DE LA REVISTA DESPERTA FERRO PERDEDORES «La guerra de los que la perdieron. En el aire, el mar, la selva, la arena y la nieve. Terribles y elocuen- tes testimonios de la derrota». JACINTO ANTÓN, EL PAÍS "¿Derrota superada? El libro sitúa en el punto de mira a los Perdedores de la segunda guerra mundial Pocas veces caemos en que el silencio de los vencidos no es tal. Naturalmente, alemanes y japone- ses, militares y civiles, hablaban y escribían sobre sus experiencias de guerra. Enva-lentonados, con- vencidos de su causa, vacilantes, cansados u horrorizados, sus testimonios existen.

Perdedores es el emocionante relato en primera persona de unos cuantos de los millones de personas que combatieron contra los Aliados en la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Recurre a las auténticas voces de los protagonistas, soldados y civiles alemanes y japoneses, para relatar sus experiencias. Sus palabras salen de diarios, cartas, informes de interrogatorios, entrevistas y memorias personales. Fascinante e instructivo, Perdedores revela como fue el conflicto para dos pueblos conducidos al desastre por unos lideres avidos de poder y fanaticos. Los testimonios del conflicto relatan en primera persona los horrores de la guerra y de los dias inmediatos posteriores al final de la contienda. Los estremecedores relatos de los supervivientes, soldados, civiles, mujeres y niños, revelan las terribles consecuencias de la guerra para una poblacion cuyos lideres, avidos de ambicion y poder, los llevaron al desastre.Con la lectura de los testimonios en primera persona de los protagonistas del libro, el lector se convertira en un espectador privilegiado de la fatalidad de la guerra a traves de los ojos de los perdedores. La guerra de los que la perdieron. En el aire, el mar, la selva, la arena y la nieve. Terribles y elocuentes testimonios de la derrota. Jacinto Anton, EL PAIS

On 8 March, 00:41, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 took off from Kuala Lumpur International Airport. At 01:19, the pilot bid air traffic control good night. Two minutes later, the plane and its 227 passengers vanished from the skies. No trace has been found.The disappearance of flight MH370 has horrified people across the globe. In an age where a stolen smartphone can be pinpointed to any location on earth, the vanishing of a cruise liner and 227 passengers is the greatest mystery since the Mary Celeste.Experienced author and journalist Nigel Cawthorne has researched the case with incredible thoroughness, revealing the most compelling explanations behind the mystery gripping the world.

The Chilling Inside Story of Women Who Are Driven to Kill Killer Women are the most disturbing yet compelling of all criminals, representing the very darkest side of humanity and subverting the conventional view of women as the weaker sex. From Elizabeth Bathory, The Bloody Countess whose vampire-like tendencies terrorised sixteenth-century Hungary, to the Moors Murderer Myra Hindley and the Florida Highway Killer Aileen Wuornos, these women transfix us with their extreme ability to commit savage acts of cruelty and depravity. Most chilling is the fact that many of their victims represent the most vulnerable in society: babies, the ill and infirm, and the elderly. In some cases their methods of disposing of the corpses fall nothing short of ingenious: meet Leonarda Cianciulli, The Soap-Maker of Correggio, who used the fat from her victims bodies to make soap and teacakes to sell to unsuspecting customers. These killers backgrounds, methods and their crimes are described in forensic and gripping detail.50 terrifying cases of killer women are brought to life, including:Elizabeth Bathory The Bloody CountessAmelia Dyer, The Reading Baby FarmerJane Toppan, Jolly JaneJuana Barraza, The Old Lady KillerLeonarda Cianciulli, The Soap-Maker of CorreggioBonnie Parker, Bonnie & ClydeRosemary WestMyra HindleyAileen Wuornos

First-hand accounts of football violence, from infamous Millwall to Man U. Once dubbed the English disease, British match-day thuggery has spread right across Europe and beyond. Here is the inside story of that phenomenon from those that were there, taking part in the mayhem. Yob Laureate Dougie Brimson and his brother Eddy offer a compelling description of match-day madness; Colin Ward goes steaming in, while other pieces detail the irresistible aggro of the local Derby, the tragedy inside Heysel Stadium and the violence surrounding Englands 1998 World Cup match against Tunisia. Finally, Dougie Brimson asks if the police are not just another firm, simply participants in the violence.

Agatha Christies 80 novels and short-story collections have sold over 2 billion copies in more than 45 languages, more than any other author. When Christie finally killed off her Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot, the year before she herself died, that detestable, bombastic, tiresome, ego-centric little creep in Christies words, received a full-page obituary in the New York Times, the only fictional character ever to have done so. From her first novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles, a Poirot mystery, to her last, Sleeping Murder, featuring Miss Marple, Crawford explores Christies life and fiction. Cawthorne examines recurring characters, such as Captain Arthur Hastings, Poirots Dr Watson; Chief Inspector Japp, his Lestrade, as well as other flat-footed policemen that Poirot outsmarts on his travels; his efficient secretary, Miss Felicity Lemon; another employee, George; and Ariadne Oliver, a humorous caricature of Christie herself. He looks at the writers own fascinating: her work as a nurse during the First World War; her strange disappearance after her first husband asked for a divorce; and her exotic expeditions with her second husband, the archaeologist Sir Max Mallowan. He examines the authors working life her inspirations, methods and oeuvre and provides biographies of her key characters, their attire, habits and methods, including Poirots relationships with women, particularly Countess Vera Rossakoff and Miss Amy Carnaby. In doing so, he sheds light on the genteel world of the country house and the Grand Tour between the wars. He takes a look at the numerous adaptations of Christies stories for stage and screen, especially Poirots new life in the eponymous long-running and very successful TV series.

30 inside stories of the American Mafia, Sicilian Cosa Nostra, Camorra and NdranghetaImages of life in the Mob pervade our film and TV screens, some glamorous, some horrific - what is the reality? Investigative journalist Roger Wilkes has put together the largest ever collection of insider stories from prominent ex-mafiosi, infiltrators and award-winning writers. It contains tell-all accounts by the likes of:Richard The Iceman Kuklinski, the contract killer who claimed to have murdered over 200 people in a career lasting 43 years.Frankie Saggio, who freelanced for all five of New Yorks Mafia families, narrowly escaping assassination before being busted for a major scam.Joey Black, the Hitman, chillingly professional murderer of 38 victims and regarded by many as the original Soprano.Albert DeMeo, the son of a gangster, who later became a lawyer.Donnie Brasco, real name Joseph Pistone, the FBI agent, who worked undercover in the Bonanno and Colombo crime families in New York for six years.Tommaso Buscetta, the Sicilian mafioso, the first pentito, or informant, of real significance to break omerta. The two judges with whom he worked, Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino, were both later killed by the Mafia.This is the reality of the world of men you wouldnt want to cross.

A very readable overview of Tolkien and his work, incorporating a brief biography, an examination of the books and a look at the process of filming his work, including The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings saga. It explores how Tolkiens background as a medievalist and linguist informed the languages of Middle-earth, the influence of his Catholicism and Tolkiens legacy in fantasy.A timely book to coincide with the first of Peter Jacksons two keenly awaited Hobbit films.

Who was Robin Hood? Throughout history the figures of the hooded man of Sherwood forest and his band of outlaws have transfixed readers and viewers; but where does the myth come from? The story appeared out of the legend of the Green man but found its location during the reign of Richard II, the Lionheart, who was away from England fighting in the crusades. In his absence his brother John lay waste to the country. But does this tell the full story? Was Robin a bandit prince ahead of a troop of brigands? Who was the Sherrif and was he in fact the legitimate law in the land fighting vigilantes?

Throughout history the English have been a warlike lot. Often we fight among ourselves - there have been a good few civil wars - and when we were not slaughtering each other, we practiced on our neighbours, the Scots, the Irish, the French . . . When that got too easy, we set off around the world to find other people to fight. This was usually done with a hubris that invited some ludicrous pratfall. In THE BEASTLY BATTLES OF OLD ENGLAND, Nigel Cawthorne takes us on a darkly humorous journey through some of our ill-advised military actions. From the war over a severed ear to a general seeking out his rivals mistresses to even the score, it is a miscellany of insufferable arrogance, reckless gallantry, stunning stupidity, massive misjudgements and general beastliness.

Detailed accounts of over 30 contemporary cases, or older cases reopened as a result of advances in forensic science. Crime scene investigations draw on a wide range of cutting-edge technology including genetic fingerprinting, blood splatter analysis, laser ablation, toxicology and ballistics analysis. Cases covered here include: the abduction of Madeleine McCann; the vindication of Colin Stagg, convicted of having murdered Rachel Nickell; Hadden Clark who killed and ate a six-year-old child in Maryland; Robert Pickton, the Vancouver farmer who fed his female victims to his pigs; the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia (was Amanda Knox guilty?); Lindsay Hawkers gruesome death in Japan; Josef Fritzl and the cellar in which he imprisoned and raped his daughter.