Cawthorne Nigel: 90 books
Sex Lives Of The Presidents
From Washington To Clinton
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
It didn't start with Clinton, or even Kennedy. Ever since the Father of our Country was sworn in over 200 years ago, the White House has seen its share of oversexed, adulterous, philandering presidents. From Washington's countless bed partners to Jefferson's illegitimate children, Kennedy's notorious...
Hitler: The Psychiatric Files
The Madness of the Führer
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2016
How did a former Austrian corporal in the Bavarian army with no apparent gift for leadership or strategy become the leader of one of the most civilized countries in Europe and turn it into a nightmare state? This is an accessible, concise and penetrating analysis of Adolf Hitler, the most enigmatic figure...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2016
London abounds with all manner of ludicrous laws, and not all of these curious statutes have been relegated to the past. Despite the efforts of the Law Commission there are medieval laws that are still in force, and the City of London and its livery companies have their own legal oddities. Laws are...
Serial Killers and Mass Murderers
Profiles of the World's Most Barbaric Criminals
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2007
SHOCKING TRUE STORIES OF THE WORLD'S MOST BARBARIC CRIMINALSRevealing portraits of the most notorious killers of our time:Jeffrey DahmerThe Zodiac KillerDr. Harold ShipmanSon of SamThe Columbine KillersCharles MansonThe Night StalkerThe Yorkshire RipperTed BundyCharles StarkweatherThe...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2006
100 Catastrophic Disasters is an astounding compendium of natural and man-made disasters. The range of entries is extraordinary, from the bizarre to the horrific, and from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. The book includes some of history's most incredible disasters and tells in vivid detail the...
Heroes
The True Stories Behind Every VC Winner Since World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
For a nation with a long and proud military tradition, one token stands above all others as a mark of recognition for the ultimate acts of individual feats of arms: the Victoria Cross. Awarded for one reason alone - to mark extreme acts of great heroism by British and Commonwealth servicemen in the...
Jack the Ripper's Secret Confession
The Hidden Testimony of Britain's First Serial Killer
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
With several million copies sold in the last fifty years, My Secret Life, first published by Grove Press in the 1960s, is one of the most famous pornographic works in literary history. What readers of this long-banned and troubling book of violent sexual fantasies failed to realize is that it is also...
Doomsday
50 Visions of the End of the World
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2013
Just how near is the end of the world? Behind the veil of safety of everyday life in the West lurks the sinister reality of a chaotic universe. Doomsday reveals the very real threats posed to modern civilisation as the 21st century progresses, and asks the question: Is humanity on the path to destruction?...
by Pamela Ball, Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
When bigotry and power-mania take control, disaster always follows for ordinary people - even when the power is wielded by the Church. Witchcraft, of course, was seen as devil-worship. Those accused - over 100,000 people, mainly women, between 1450 and 1750 - were subjected to the most bestial tortures...
Tyrants
History's 100 Most Evil Despots & Dictators
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
An astonishing compendium of dictators and their crimes against the State. The scope of entries is an all-encompassing chronicle of tyrants. They range from the bizarre to the horrific, from the heartbreaking to the ridiculous. The book includes 100 of history's most infamous despots. In vivid detail...
The Curious Cures Of Old England
Eccentric treatments, outlandish remedies and fearsome surgeries for ailments from the plague to the pox
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2018
Did you know that a child can be cured of the whooping cough by passing it under the belly of a donkey?
The history of medicine in Britain is filled with the most bizarre and gruesome cures for many common ailments. Although enthusiastically supported by doctors of the time, many of these cures...
by Nigel Cawthorne
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
What do the rich and famous really get up to behind closed doors? When does sexual passion become sordid perversion? Who are history's most shocking deviants and what are their sex secrets? The pages of this book reveal 45 shocking, scandalous--and often disturbing--stories of promiscuity and sexual...
The Mammoth Book of New CSI
Forensic science in over thirty real-life crime scene investigations
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
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...
Witch Hunt
The History of Persecution
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2003
When bigotry and power-mania take control, disaster always follows for ordinary people - even when the power is wielded by the Church. Witchcraft, of course, was seen as devil-worship. Those accused - over 100,000 people, mainly women, between 1450 and 1750 - were subjected to the most bestial tortures...