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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 10 books in this booklist
£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781474601917 | ISBN 10: 147460191x
A uniquely personal exploration of the origins of international law, centring on the Nuremberg Trials, the city of Lviv and a secret family history. Â When human rights lawyer Philippe Sands received an invitation to deliver a lecture in the weste ... more
View book details£16.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780745335759 | ISBN 10: 0745335756
Friends of Alice Wheeldon is a remarkable play by Sheila Rowbotham that re-enacts the 1917 trial and subsequent imprisonment of Wheeldon for her alleged role in plotting to assassinate the Prime Minister Lloyd George. It is prefaced by an extended es ... more
View book details£8.99 paperback (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780349138565 | ISBN 10: 0349138567
The sensational murder trial of Florence Maybrick that gripped Victorian society. In the summer of 1889, young Southern belle Florence Maybrick stood trial for the alleged arsenic poisoning of her much older husband, Liverpool cotton merchant James ... more
View book details£17.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781908928375 | ISBN 10: 1908928379
This book, the companion to The Trials of Civilians by Military Courts: Ireland 1921, is a fascinating and comprehensive study of the trials during May 1916, following the Easter Rising. There were 160 trials conducted in a two-week period between th ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846272875 | ISBN 10: 1846272874
1987, Pretoria. Four young black men have just been arrested for a horrific string of political murders. There's no doubt that they're guilty of everything they're accused of - and more. But in a society riven by brutal repression and racial tensions ... more
View book details£14.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781780270159 | ISBN 10: 1780270151
Megrahi finally speaks in his own defence. The evidence concerns a tiny fragment of electronic printed circuit board (PCB), which was allegedly from the Lockerbie bomb’s timer. The judges at Mr Megrahi’s trial accepted that it was identi ... more
View book details£18.99 hardback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781935554165 | ISBN 10: 1935554166
Walter and Miriam Schneir’s 1965 bestseller Invitation to an Inquest was among the first critical accounts of the controversial case of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, famously executed in 1953 for passing atom bomb secrets to Soviet Russia. In Invitatio ... more
View book details£21.99 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9780745329277 | ISBN 10: 0745329276
In January 2003, the British media splashed the news that anti-terror police had disrupted an Al-Qaeda cell, poised to unleash the deadly poison ricin on the capital. Police had reportedly found traces of ricin, as well as a panoply of bomb and poiso ... more
View book details£115.00 hardback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9780415955683 | ISBN 10: 0415955688
There have been numerous works produced in recent years dealing with the era commonly known as McCarthyism. There have been few, if any, however, that detail the evolution of the repressive social climate that nourished the McCarthy age. This work co ... more
View book details£9.99 paperback (2002) - ISBN 13: 9780141439303 | ISBN 10: 0141439300
'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountain tops of our desires.' After twenty-seven years in prison, Nelson Mandela finally walked ... more
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