True stories
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True stories
Paperback. Num Pages: 176 pages, 33 photos, b/w maps & 32 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBCB; BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 217 x 139 x 10. Weight in Grams: 215.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Hancock House Pub Ltd
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780888394514
- ISBN
- 9780888394514
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 27.99€ 19.76
€ 27.99
€ 19.76
Paperback. This collection of true stories illuminates the experiences of a young Polish boy before World War II, through the gathering storm of Nazism, into the death camps, to poignant reunions many years later. Num Pages: 248 pages, 21, 21 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BT; HBJD; HBTZ1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 363.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- Johns Hopkins University Press United States
- Edition
- Expanded ed
- Number of pages
- 248
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780801863103
- ISBN
- 9780801863103
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 37.63
€ 37.63
Hardback. Recounts the tale of a career UN official caught in the turmoil of international and domestic politics swirling around Cambodia after the fall of the Khmer Rouge. Putting a human face on international operations, this book is suitable for those interested in Southeast Asia, and the role of international peacekeeping. Series: Asian Voices. Num Pages: 356 pages, black & white illustrations, maps. BIC Classification: 1FMC; BT; JPSN1; JWLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 241 x 160 x 26. Weight in Grams: 681.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Rowman & Littlefield United States
- Number of pages
- 356
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780742555525
- ISBN
- 9780742555525
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 166.82
€ 166.82
Paperback. The plan was to attach a Greenpeace pod to Gazprom's platform and launch a peaceful protest against oil being pumped from the icy waters of the Arctic. However, heavily armed commandos flooded the deck of the Arctic Sunrise and the Arctic Thirty began their ordeal at the hands of Putin's regime. This book tells their story. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; 1MTN; BTC; JKVP1; JPW; RNP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 132 x 260 x 29. Weight in Grams: 314.
- Publisher
- Guardian Faber Publishing
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Main
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783350780
- ISBN
- 9781783350780
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.97
€ 17.99
€ 12.97
Paperback. For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; BG; BTC; WDMC; WDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- Arrow London
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KAK0006914
- ISBN
- 9780099490999
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. For nearly five years, he was known as the 'Darling Of Las Vegas'. Some said he was a Russian arms dealer, others a pop star from Eastern Europe. But the truth was even more unlikely: he was a twenty-one year old graduate student who had a plan that would one day make him richer than anyone could possibly imagine. Num Pages: 352 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBWN; BG; BTC; WDMC; WDP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 22. Weight in Grams: 256. Good copy with some shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Good
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Arrow London
- Edition
- New Ed
- Publication date
- 2006
- SKU
- KTG0007136
- ISBN
- 9780099490999
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Cheating in casinos is illegal: card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. This book tells the true story a successful scam, in which teams of young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- Used, Good
- SKU
- KTJ0005409
- ISBN
- 9780099468233
Paperback
Condition: Used, Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Cheating in casinos is illegal: card-counting - making a record of what cards have so far been dealt to enable the player to make some prediction of what cards remain in the deck - is not. This book tells the true story a successful scam, in which teams of young mathematicians and physicists won millions of dollars from the casinos of Las Vegas. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 130 x 21. Weight in Grams: 230. Clean copy
- Edition
- New edition
- Publisher
- Cornerstone
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- SKU
- KEX0231140
- ISBN
- 9780099468233
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. 'Sex on the Moon' is the amazing true story of the 35-year-old genius who convinced NASA interns to help him steal Apollo moon rocks from every moon landing in history. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Arrow
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780099553427
- ISBN
- 9780099553427
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 20.99€ 16.77
€ 20.99
€ 16.77
Paperback. The rumbustious true story of the Victorian master thief who was the model for Conan Doyle's Moriarty, Sherlock Holmes' arch-rival. From the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zigzag'. Num Pages: 320 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1KBB; 2AB; 3JH; BGH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 23. Weight in Grams: 258.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 350
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780006550624
- ISBN
- 9780006550624
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 12.91
€ 17.99
€ 12.91
Paperback. A wartime romance, survival saga and murder mystery set in rural France during the First World War, from the bestselling author of 'Operation Mincemeat' and 'Agent Zig-Zag'. Num Pages: 320 pages, 35 b/w plates (16pp), With index. BIC Classification: 1DDF; 3JJF; BTM; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 133 x 22. Weight in Grams: 250.
- Publisher
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780007395262
- ISBN
- 9780007395262
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.45
€ 13.00
€ 11.45
Paperback. James Cracknell and Ben Fogle's hardback smash of Christmas 2006 becomes a massive paperback bestseller in summer 2007. 'Read this.. Two very different men fight, play games and nearly lose their lives.' The Times Num Pages: 288 pages, 2x4 b/w & colour integrated. BIC Classification: 1QSA; BTP; WSB; WSSN7. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 131 x 22. Weight in Grams: 290. Conquering the Atlantic in the World's Toughest Rowing Race. 288 pages, 2x4 b/w & colour integrated. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QSA; BTP; WSB; WSSN7. Dimension: 196 x 131 x 22. Weight: 290.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Atlantic Books
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781843545125
- ISBN
- 9781843545125
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.99€ 18.50
€ 24.99
€ 18.50
Paperback. From the brutal murder of John Paas in 1832 and the poisoning of a 70-year-old widow by two young men, to the fatal shooting of a young woman in 1919, and was to become one of the fascinating murder cases in legal history, this title presents a collection of the criminal cases that have taken place in Leicester between the mid-1800s and 1950s. Series: Sutton True Crime History. Num Pages: 150 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKEML; 3JH; 3JJ; BTC; WQH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 247 x 173 x 11. Weight in Grams: 418.
- Publisher
- The History Press Ltd
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780750948104
- ISBN
- 9780750948104
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 19.99€ 18.60
€ 19.99
€ 18.60
Paperback. A lone policewoman disarms a knife-wielding schizophrenic; two officers drag a woman from a railway line seconds before an express train roars past; an undercover cop clings onto the bonnet of a drug-dealer's car as it speeds through a busy town centre. Num Pages: 384 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; BTC; JKSW1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 140 x 26. Weight in Grams: 282.
- Publisher
- Little, Brown Book Group
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- UK ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472108326
- ISBN
- 9781472108326
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
€ 13.00
€ 11.81
Paperback. The bestselling and infamous diary of a high-class call girl Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BM; BTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 134 x 23. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753819234
- ISBN
- 9780753819234
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.08
€ 13.99
€ 11.08
Paperback. What Belle de Jour did next.. this is the sparkling, witty and titillating follow-up to the bestselling Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BM; BTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 318.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Number of pages
- 336
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Phoenix Edition
- SKU
- KNW0009925
- ISBN
- 9780753825495
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 5.49
€ 5.49
Paperback. What Belle de Jour did next.. this is the sparkling, witty and titillating follow-up to the bestselling Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBKESL; BM; BTX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 195 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 232.
- Publisher
- Orion Publishing Co
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780753821602
- ISBN
- 9780753821602
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.99€ 11.05
€ 13.99
€ 11.05
Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: BG; BM; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 157 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 448.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Beaufort Books
- Edition
- Updated
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780825307782
- ISBN
- 9780825307782
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.39
€ 17.39
Paperback. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: BTP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 142 x 27. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- Corgi
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Edition
- 0th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780552168786
- ISBN
- 9780552168786
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.00€ 11.81
€ 13.00
€ 11.81
Paperback. A remarkable journey to the summit of Mount Everest, described as 'honest and compelling' by Sir Ranulph Fiennes. Num Pages: 304 pages, 16 colour photographs. BIC Classification: 1FKAH; BGSA; BTP; WSZG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 133 x 21. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Edition
- Main Market
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780330392266
- ISBN
- 9780330392266
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 13.28
€ 17.99
€ 13.28