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This is the ultimate insider's view of perhaps the darkest chapter of the Forever Wars. Michael R. Gordon knows everyone, was seemingly everywhere, and brings a lifetime of brilliant reporting to telling this crucial story." -Retired U.S. Navy Admiral James Stavridis, Sixteenth Supreme Allied Commander of NATO and author of To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of DecisionAn essential account of the struggle against ISIS-and of how P...

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Nach dem Tod Edwards IV. von England trachtet dessen Bruder Richard nach der Krone und ermordet alle, die ihm im Wege stehen...

From the private files of Scotland Yard's in house museum come 19th and 20th century tales of murder, which mark some of the most infamous cases ever investigated by one of the world's premier investigative forces.

An essential account of the struggle against ISIS-and President Trump's way of warIn 2014, President Obama overcame his long-standing aversion to large-scale military action in the Middle East and took the United States to war against the Islamic State. Assembling a coalition of regional and European allies, the U.S. military began a massive bombing campaign and returned its advisers to Iraq. Three years later, the Islamic State's self-declare...

The Thames Torso Murders have been overshadowed by Jack the Ripper and his crimes, but were just as brutal and gruesome. They began in 1887 in London's East End, just north of the Thames River in Rainham, England. The killer took one victim that year, another in 1888, and two more in 1889. He resumed his crimes in 1902, taking his last victim south of the Thames and leaving her body in a pile of dismembered parts as he had done with most of hi...

Over a century ago, a depraved killer skillfully moved through the dark and filthy slums of London's East End. Despite the increasingly watchful eyes of investigators, the serial murderer--known as "Jack the Ripper" from a signature on a piece of correspondence that has been attributed to him--was never certainly identified. R. Michael Gordon provides a comprehensive look at the crimes and the case evidence, and then discusses the life of the ...

For the first time, the American murders of Jack the Ripper are revealed in the 1891 and 1892 crimes of Severin Klosowski (a.k.a. George Chapman, the Borough Poisoner), a prime suspect in the Ripper case. Readers will learn about these unknown Ripper victims, as the book explores why the American connection has remained hidden for so long.

In this follow-up to their national bestseller "Cobra II, " Gordon and General Trainor deftly piece together the story of the most widely reported but least understood war in American history. This stunning account of the political and military struggle between American, Iraqi, and Iranian forces brings together vivid reporting of diplomatic intrigue and gripping accounts.

A revelatory work of investigative journalism, this comprehensive and unfiltered account of the war in Iraq is written by the only reporter who was embedded with the Allied land command.

Provides an examination of the events, decisions, and policies that may have contributed to the horrific destruction of the shuttles Challenger and Columbia. This book traces the early development of NASA's shuttle program, examining the problems associated with the designs of shuttles OV-099 (Challenger) and OV-102 (Columbia).

Polish-born Severino Antoniovich Klosowski gained notoriety as "The Borough Poisoner of Southwark". Within a span of 5 years, he took on 3 women as his wives and lethally poisoned each woman with deadly doses of antimony. This work examines Klosowski's murders of Mary Spink, Elizabeth "Bessie" Taylor, and Maud Marsh.

Body snatchers and grave robbers were the stuff of Victorian lore, but two real-life culprits took the crimes out of shadowy cemeteries and into criminal court. This title explores the work of the Resurrectionists, and shows the nature of serial killers, 1820s criminal law, and Edinburgh's early role as a seat of European medical research.

An account of the war in the Persian Gulf takes readers behind the scenes at the Pentagon and the White House to provide portraits of the top military commanders and to discuss what worked and what did not.