The Lady in the Cellar: Murder, Scandal and Insanity in Victorian Bloomsbury, McKay Sinclair

Автор: Mckay, Sinclair
Название: Mile end murder
ISBN: 1781318042 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781318041
Издательство: Aurum Press
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Описание: In 1860, a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home, killed by a blow to the back of her head. What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation, a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author, Arthur Conan Doyle.

Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: The Fire and the Darkness: The Bombing of Dresden, 1945
ISBN: 1250258014 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250258014
Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS
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A gripping work of narrative nonfiction recounting the history of the Dresden Bombing, one of the most devastating attacks of World War II.

On February 13th, 1945 at 9:45 PM, British bombers began one of the most devastating attacks of WWII: the bombing of Dresden. The first contingent killed people and destroyed buildings, roads, and other structures. The second rained down fire, turning the streets into a blast furnace, the shelters into ovens, and whipping up a molten hurricane in which the citizens of Dresden were burned, baked, or suffocated to death.

Early the next day, American bombers finished off what was left. Sinclair McKay's The Fire and the Darkness is a pulse-pounding work of history that looks at the life of the city in the days before the attack, tracks each moment of the bombing, and considers the long period of reconstruction and recovery. The Fire and the Darkness is powered by McKay's reconstruction of this unthinkable terror from the points of view of the ordinary civilians: Margot Hille, an apprentice brewery worker; Gisela Reichelt, a ten-year-old schoolgirl; boys conscripted into the Hitler Youth; choristers of the Kreuzkirche choir; artists, factory floor managers, shop assistants, and classical musicians, as well as the Nazi officials stationed there.

What happened that night in Dresden was calculated annihilation in a war that was almost over. Sinclair McKay's brilliant work takes a complex, human, view of this terrible night and its aftermath in a gripping book that will be remembered long after the last page is turned.

Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: Secret Service Brainteasers
ISBN: 1472258312 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472258311
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Pit your wits against the greatest minds of our time with brain bogglers, puzzles and hidden codes inspired by the secret services.

Автор: McKay Sinclair
Название: Scotland Yard Puzzle Book
ISBN: 1472258339 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781472258335
Издательство: Hodder
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Описание: Pit your wits against the brilliant minds of Scotland Yard, from the bestselling author of Bletchley Park Brainteasers.