Brooks, Victor:Honor the Brave: America's Wars and Warriors
- signiertes Exemplar 2017, ISBN: 9780471418368
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Lightning Source POD, 20180901. Paperback. 9in 8in. Wordcatcher History HIS015060 (HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)) Wordcatcher Publishing A scr… Mehr…
Lightning Source POD, 20180901. Paperback. 9in 8in. Wordcatcher History HIS015060 (HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)) Wordcatcher Publishing A scream shatters the silence A shot rings out David Thomas is dead But what happened? And who committed this gruesome crime? John F. Wake takes us through the events of that fateful night, examining the evidence, the rumours and the suspects. This is a fascinating case of Victorian crime and it caught the imagination of the public at the time. Scores of people were arrested as suspects all over Britain. The air was rife with rumour, a new theory was expounded everyday and the newspapers printed it all. It was sensational, even before a young London Clairvoyant became involved. John explores all aspects of the case and tests the veracity of the many theories, some harebrained but others more plausible. He also raises questions about the police work done at the time. Many of the clues were actually uncovered by journalists. Did the police follow up all the leads? Did they have something to hide? And what is the truth? Will we find justice for David Thomas? Authors note 1 Acknowledgements 2 Introduction 3 Chapter One Setting the Scene 7 Chapter Two David Thomas: Lord Windsors Carpenter 15 Chapter Three The Build-up to Murder 21 Chapter Four Two Fateful Shots 29 Chapter Five Location of the Murder and Identification of the Body 37 Chapter Six The Inquest Reveals Important New Evidence 45 Chapter Seven The Funeral: 3pm 15th July, 1896 at St Marys Church, St Fagans 53 Chapter Eight One Week Later 59 Chapter Nine Circulation of a Wanted Man. Updates Suspects Arrests 63 Chapter Ten New Witnesses with New Evidence 75 Chapter Eleven The Girl Who Knew it All 81 Chapter Twelve Mesmerists, Palmistry, Spiritualism, Phrenology and Clairvoyance 95 Chapter Thirteen Possible Trade Union Revenge? 101 Chapter Fourteen Was Joseph Lewis Guilty? 107 Chapter Fifteen The Witnesses 123 1. Mrs ACKERMAN, 6, York Place and LUKE, 55 Pen-y-peel Road, Canton 125 2. Mr. ALLEN, Waungron House 126 3. Mr. Augustus, 37, Pen-y-peel Road, Canton 126 4. William AYLING 127 5. Mrs. BECKER 128 6. Mr BECKER 128 7. Thomas BEER, Fairwater Dairy, Canton 129 8. Mark BEVAN, St Fagans Rectory 129 9. Alfred BOWMAN, 43, Brecon Street, Canton & Miss MITCHELL, 330, Cowbridge Road 130 10. Thomas CHIDZEY, 23, Clive Road, Canton 132 11. Mrs CROSS, 369 Cowbridge Road 132 12. Harry CUSS 133 13. Miss FREDERICK & Miss JOHN 134 14. Mr. HOOK 134 15. Fred HOOK, Fairwater 135 16. Mrs. HOOK, wife of John HOOK 136 17. F. Ernest HOPKINS 136 18. Mr. LUKE, 55, Pen-y-peel Road. 136 19. William Frederick MEREDITH 136 20. Frank MATHEWS 137 21. Andrew McPHERSON, Ely Rise, {Coachman} 138 22. William T. MULLETT (MALLET), Lodger of Hook 138 23. Miss Constance NEWTON, Plymouth Road, Penarth 139 24. Mrs. PERRY, Providence Villa, Waungron 139 25. Mrs. Henry SANSOME, Graig Farm, Fairwater 140 26. John SANSOME, 11 years. Son of Frederick Sansome 140 27. Police Constable SPILLER, St Fagans 140 28. Thomas STARK, Station Master at St. Fagans 141 29. Windsor THOMAS, Woodville Road 141 30. Charles Wesley WILLIAMS, Ely Road 141 31. H. WILLIAMS, (boy), 51, Gray Street, Canton 142 32. Miss WILLIAMS, Waungron 143 33. Mrs WOODWARD, Clive Street, Canton 143 Chapter Sixteen Further Written Evidence 145 Chapter Seventeen Conclusions and Questions 149 Appendix One Local Dignitaries 159 Appendix Two Known Attendees at the Funeral of David Thomas 163 Appendix Three The Inquest Jury 165, Lightning Source POD, 20180901, 0, New York: Delacorte Press Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993. BOOK: Spine Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. TV TIE-IN: This novel was the basis for the 1995 Made-for-Television film of the same name. SYNOPSIS: With Vanished, her thirty-first best-selling novel, Danielle Steel brings to life the story of a man and woman faced with an almost unthinkable tragedy - the mysterious abduction of their young son. In the late 1930s, in the shadow of the Lindbergh kidnapping, and as war looms in Europe, Marielle Patterson shares her life with her husband, Malcolm, and their little boy, Teddy, in an elegant brownstone on New York's Upper East Side. But their lives are filled with secrets. Haunted by a past she has kept hidden even from her husband, Marielle secretly lights a candle each year for a child who died in a tragic accident when he was scarcely more than a baby. Consumed with guilt, Marielle is nevertheless a devoted wife and mother. Malcolm, stern and successful, is a man everyone admires. On the eve of little Teddy's disappearance, Marielle runs into her first love, American expatriate Charles Delauney. The ache of memory is instantly revived, their brief moments together bittersweet and explosive. And when Teddy is kidnapped, Charles is first blamed, then arrested. Suspicions and accusations mingle with terror and heartbreak as the Pattersons, the New York police, and the FBI turn the city, and eventually the country, upside down, looking for Teddy. The inevitable parallels with the Lindberghs are drawn, and the fear that Teddy has been killed can't be ignored. Every threat, every failure, every terror, is remembered, examined, explored. Even Marielle is scrutinized by the FBI, and special agent John Taylor. The questions are inevitable: Who kidnapped Teddy Patterson? Did Charles Delauney? Someone else? Did Marielle conspire with them? Is the child dead or alive? Does Malcolm, the boy's father, have secrets of his own? John Taylor becomes obsessed with mother and child, and finding the elusive answers. A terrifying court drama seeks to put Charles Delauney behind bars as a series of revelations begins to unravel the truth about Marielle, Charles, and Malcolm. Piece by piece the uncovering of their past creates a complex mosaic of the motives and passions controlling their lives. Vanished is an intriguing tale of guilt, desire, and suspense, and people one can't easily forget, as they are drawn inexorably together, seeking the child that . . . vanished.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Andrew M. Newman. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall., Delacorte Press Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, Inc., 1993, 3, UK,12mo p/b Original,1st edn.[Complete number line 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2.] FINE.No owner inscrptn and no price removal to cover.Bright,crisp, clean,sharp-cornered,subject's matt b/w portrait photographic illustrated front cover,with white and gilt lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present - no reading creases to spine/backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no reading creases to spine/backstrip and no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, unread - apart from my own collation.UK,12mo p/b Original,1st edn, viipp+1-246pp [paginated] includes acknowledgements,15 chapters,8pp contemporary biographical colour photographs in 1 block,between pp120/1; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages and contents list/table. Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou,George Michael was raised in a family of Greek Cypriot immigrants in North London,and dreamed of stardom when he was a little boy.At just twelve years old he met Andrew Ridgeley and the two of them went on to achieve stunning success in the early 1980s with Wham!,creating music that remains popular to this day. Yet despite the enormous popularity of Wham!,George wanted more,and so set about recreating himself as a serious solo artist,reaching heights of even greater success.Ironically,however,even from the early days he was plagued with insecurity about his sexuality,which,combined with the calamity of losing his first lover to AIDS and his mother to cancer, plunged him into a lifelong struggle with drug addiction.He died,at the tragically early age of just fifty-three,on Christmas Day 2016. George Michael's life and career brought him international fame,and his sudden and unexpected death shocked the world.His unrivalled popularity as an artist,however,and the music he made,have turned him into one of the immortal greats of pop music.As Emily Herbert shows in this new biography,his legacy is not just his music,but his many extraordinary and often anonymous,acts of charity. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in this year too,the UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering it's prices, weight allowances,dimensions and lowered it's qualifying compensation rates too! So,please contact rpaxtonden@blueyonder.co.uk ,for correct shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!, LONDON.JOHN BLAKE PUBLISHING LIMITED.,2017., 5, N.Y.: Knopf, 1990. First edition, so stated. Fine in fine dust jacket, not price clipped, in protective mylar cover. "Vachss ( Flood ) is not for everyone, but fans of his hard-hitting series about Burke, the tough ex-con who mercilessly tracks criminals and degenerates down to society's seamiest depths, will find this fifth installment as riveting as his previous thrillers. The Burke novels read almost as one continuing story, with enough references to previous events and characters to leave the new reader, if not baffled, at least feeling on the outside looking in. Even more discomfiting is the fact that Vachss comes close to rendering the term "hard-boiled" obsolete. Many scenes are uncomfortably graphic and intense in themselves; their cumulative effect is extraordinarily powerful. This time, Burke leaves behind the familiar New York underworld and his band of street "brothers" when a former cellmate's call for help takes him to a small Indiana town where the ex-con's nephew has been charged with a series of sex murders. Burke must determine if the boy is guilty and, if he isn't, locate the real killer. Like all Vachss's novels, this one is named after its central female character, here, an enigmatic waitress who turns out to be as tough and deadly as Burke himself. A New York attorney specializing in child abuse cases, Vachss is responsible for some of the grittiest crime fiction written today." -- Publishers Weekly. First Edition. Hard Cover. Fine/Fine. Book., Knopf, 1990, 5, Canada: No Place ( Printed in Victoria, BC ): Trafford Publishing, 2008, 1st edition, 2nd Printing, 2008. -----------softcover, about 6 x 9 inches, a solid Good copy, creases on the spine and covers, short tear along lower edge of front panel, store stamp, signed without inscription by the author, 457 plus 2 pages, b&w photos, ---"From MUSKEG to MURDER begins by chronicling the epic struggles and enormous challenges of the author s ancestors as they struggled to scrounge a living under the oppressive regime of the Tzar in 19th Century Ukraine. They finally fled their desperate situation, eventually settling in the free and serene environs of Canada. As a boy in rural British Columbia in the mid 20th Century, Andrew Maksymchuk is enthralled by the stories of his immigrant family s escape from oppression, and he dreams of fighting injustice. That dream becomes reality when, at 21, he is initiated into the Ontario Provincial Police Force. Sent to serve in remote Northwestern Ontario, he learns his craft in its mining centres, pulp and paper industry communities, Indian reservations, native settlements and boom towns. From MUSKEG to MURDER follows Maks as he tracks criminals on foot across frozen muskeg, by canoe and speedboat along breathtaking waterways, by rail along the CNR s ribbons of steel, and by airplane above the vastness of the Canadian Shield. In makeshift courtrooms, primitive cabins and isolated outposts, he overcomes limited training, deficient supervision, poor transportation and communication resources and the clash of cultures with ingenuity, dedication and humour. The author s willingness to share the most painful and intimate aspects of his life in a candid and unvarnished fashion serves to forge a solid bond with the reader. Family, friends, community and duty become entwined against a backdrop of a changing Canada as Maks shares his experiences and insights into the unique place of the OPP in Canadian police service"---, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and not a generic photo /// SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE///. Signed (see description). Later Printing of the first Edition. Soft Cover. Good (see description). Illus. by Photo Cover. 6w x 9h Inches., No Place ( Printed in Victoria, BC ): Trafford Publishing, 2008, 1st edition, 2nd Printing, 2008, 2.5, The Book-Lover Press, 1903-01-01. Single Issue Magazine. Acceptable. The Book-Lover Press. Single Issue Magazine, No. 4, Vol. IV. Sept- Oct, 1903, Pages 289-288 - 384, plus ads. In acceptable condition, with both front and rear covers detached (but still present) and last few pages of ads at the back also detached. Covers have several large chips and tears along edges. Binding of remainder of text block (other than covers and ads at the back) is still tight (staple reinforced). Interior pages have several small nicks and tears but are otherwise clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. Contents include: Chaucer as a Book-Lover by Lorenzo Sears Dedication Ode, Carnegie Library, Atlanta by Chas. W. Hubner; Treasures in Y. M. C. A. Library by Emily Wilder; Walton's Autograph; A Remarkable Literary Discovery; Gautier, the Impeccable by Edgar Saltus; Gladstone and Verlaine; he Romantic Twentieth Century by Minnie D. Kellogg; Amir Abdur Rahman Kahn as an Author by Charles Johnston; Rime du Bibliophile by Frankfort Sommerville; At Oscar Wilde's Grave by Robert H. Sherard; Book Sales of Dr. Johnson's Father; Mr. Dooley and Mr. Thackeray; Forgotten Southern Authors by Andrew James Miller; The Polygamous Poet by William Wallace Whitelock; Full of Strange Oaths by Arthur Hayden; James Clarence Mangan; A Chapter in the History of Paradise Lost by F. S. Ellis;. About Sainte Beuve; Book-Plates by Malcolm Chandler; Frank R.Stockton: A Memorial Sketch by Marian E. Stockton; Recollections of Frank R. Stockton by Gary Eggleston; The Making of Bret Harte; The Bookworm; Don Vincente, the Assassin Bookseller by Halkett Lord; Carlyle and His Wife; The Author of "There Is No Death"; Books Once Owned by Napoleon. Trollope and the Priest. Ballade of the Bookman's Paradise by Clinton Scollard. Ballade of Old Authors by John Buchan; How Great Minds Jump by J. Rivers; One of the Editors. A Tale by S. Virginia Levis; Eugene Field's Poems in Photographic Facsimile. Reminiscences of Hawthorne and Poe by Richard Henry Stoddard; Samuel Pepys’ Library by Ernest A. Savage; Hawthorne and the Homesick Boy; W. E. Henley. A Sketch by Francis Thompson; Abraham Cowley by D. C. Sapp; Henry Fielding's Last Newspaper. Nature in Bret Harte's Poems., The Book-Lover Press, 1903-01-01, 2.5, NY: John Wiley & Sons. Fine in Fine dust jacket. 2000. Hard Cover. 0471418366 . The wars, the battles, and the heroes that have made and kept America free "Stand your ground! Don't fire unless fired upon! But if they want to have a war, let it begin here. "? Captain John Parker to his men on Lexington Common, April 19, 1775 "Give it to them boys, let's finish this business today. "? General Andrew Jackson encouraging his men in defense of New Orleans "Victory is certain, trust in God and fear not! Remember the Alamo. "? General Sam Houston to his men about to charge Santa Anna's army "Nothing any of us had ever known could compare with the utter anguish, frustration, and constant inner battle of maintaining some semblance of sanity. "? Officer on Iwo Jima in February 1945 /// 264 pages Condition is fine in a fine dust jacket . 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall. Hardcover.; Photos & Drawings ., John Wiley & Sons, 2000, 5<
