Prion’s internationally bestselling Sex Lives series presents lighthearted accounts of the sexual escapades of major figures in history, politics, religion, the arts, and film. Irreverent and gossipy, the books are packed with carnal tidbits and eye-opening revelations. Power corrupts—absolute po...
The cases covered in this alarming book include: Argentina's crazed highway killer, responsible for mutilating and killing at least five people since 1997 and dumping their bodies along remote highways The Green River Killer, who has claimed at least 49 lives in the Seattle-Tacoma area South Afri...
Reaping the Whirlwind offers amazing insight into the events of World War II through the eyes of those who fought against the Allied forces in all theatres of the war. Readers will comb through many previously unpublished accounts of the war from German, Italian and Japanese soldiers, civilians a...
It was All Saints’ Day, a public holiday in Italy, and Meredith went to dinner with some British friends. She walked part of the way home with her friend Sophie Purton, parting company some 500 yards (460 m) from her upstairs flat at Via Pergola 7 at around 8.55 p.m. The Italian students that liv...
I wanted to have my shoes shined, something I considered below my dignity. Edison said: ‘Tesla, you will shine the shoes yourself and like it.’ He impressed me tremendously. I shined my shoes and liked it.Nikola Tesla Tesla was soon too busy to dwell on the shortcomings of the New World. The dyna...
This was a classic World War II amphibious assault, like that on Guadalcanal, Okinawa, or the beaches of Normandy. Indeed, Nam O had been used by the US Marines as a training beach before the outbreak of the Pacific War. Six weeks before, Amphibious Task Force 76 had set sail from Japan. Their ar...