It was the shot that led to World War I and the death of countless millions: the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand. This historical account of what happened on that day in June 1914 is every bit as gripping as The Day of the Jackal. Focusing on the man behind the killing, and using newly available sources (including the few surviving witnesses), David James Smith brilliantly reinvestigates and reconstructs the events that determined the shape of the twentieth century.\n- An exciting non-fiction account that reads like a popular thriller

One Morning in Sarajevo: 28 June 1914

History

Smith, David James

Military

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

Young Mandela

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Weidenfeld&Nicolson

Recouts the chilling murder of three-year-old James Bulger, who was kidnapped and brutally killed by ten-year-old school truants Bobby Thompson and Jon Venables, in a case that considers why children kill children. Reprint.

Fatal Innocence: The Crime That Shocked the World-The Story of Two British Ten-Year-Old Killers and Their Three-Year-Old Victim

True Crime

St Martins Pr

Nelson Mandela is well-known throughout the world as a heroic leader who symbolizes freedom and moral authority. He is fixed in the public mind as the world's elder statesman -- the gray-haired man with a kindly smile who spent 27 years in prison before becoming the first black president in South Africa. But Nelson Mandela was not always elderly or benign. And, in Young Mandela, award-winning journalist and author David James Smith takes us deep into the heart of racist South Africa to paint a portrait of the Mandela that many have forgotten: the committed revolutionary who left his family behind to live on the run, adopting false names and disguises and organizing the first strikes to overthrow the apartheid state. Young Mandela lifts the curtain on an icon's first steps to greatness.

Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years

Little. Brown and Company

Back Bay Books

Friday, February 12 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables, began their day playing truant and ended it running an errand for a local video shop. In between they abducted and killed the toddler James Bulger. The Sleep of Reason is the harrowing, sensitive, definitive account of this terrible crime and its consequences. In a new Preface (which considers the re-arrest of Jon Venables in February 2010) David James Smith writes: 'It is as true now as it was then that the murder has never really been explained and the motive for the crime remains a mystery. This book, the result of considerable research and a painstaking, sometimes distressing assembly of the facts, was my attempt to offer some insight and understanding.' 'Surprisingly evocative, even moving. . . immensely valuable.' Times 'Dramatic and disturbing.' Anita Brookner, Observer 'Compelling and compassionate.' Times Educational Supplement

The Sleep of Reason

Faber&Faber

For fans of Serial, Making a Murderer and The Keepers "Dramatic and disturbing . . . his evidence, used judiciously and presented without comment but with an undertone of urgency, is a damning indictment." - Anita Brookner, Observer Friday, 12th February, 1993. Two outwardly unremarkable ten-year-old boys began the day by playing truant and ended it running an errand for the local video shop. In between they abducted and killed a two-year-old boy, James Bulger. In search of an explanation, award-winning journalist David James Smith looks behind the misinformation, misunderstanding, and sensational reporting to an exact account of the events of that day. A sensitive and definitive account, The Sleep of Reason achieves a unique understanding of the James Bulger case, and comes as close as may ever be possible to explaining how two ten-year-olds could kill. Originally published in 1994, this new edition features a new preface which considers the release and rearrest of one of the convicted.

The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case

At a time when Edwardian Britain seemed a golden place, American physician Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, Belle, lived among the suburban villas of North London. After supper on January 31, 1910, the guests departed, and Crippen poisoned Belle, dismembered her, and buried part of her remains in the coal cellar. Crippen never confessed, taking the secrets of the crime with him when he was finally hanged for murder. It is assumed that Crippen killed for the love of his mistress, Ethel Le Neve. Living together as man and wife, but under intense suspicion, they fled disguised as father and son. The chase was widely reported in Europe and America, and Crippen was finally apprehended. In Supper with the Crippens, David James Smith reinvestigates this celebrated murder case.

Supper with the Crippens: A New Investigation into One of the Most Notorious Crime Cases of the 20th Century

Europe

Orion Publishing

At a time when Edwardian Britain seemed a golden place, American physician Hawley Harvey Crippen and his wife, Belle, lived among the suburban villas of North London. After supper on January 31, 1910, the guests departed, and Crippen poisoned Belle, dismembered her, and buried part of her remains in the coal cellar. Crippen never confessed, taking the secrets of the crime with him when he was finally hanged for murder. It is assumed that Crippen killed for the love of his mistress, Ethel Le Neve. Living together as man and wife, but under intense suspicion, they fled disguised as father and son. The chase was widely reported in Europe and America, and Crippen was finally apprehended. In Supper with the Crippens, David James Smith reinvestigates this celebrated murder case.

Supper with the Crippens: A New Investigation into One of the Most Notorious Domestic Murders in History

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time

World

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One Morning in Sarajevo: 28 June 1914

Young Mandela

Fatal Innocence: The Crime That Shocked the World-The Story of Two British Ten-Year-Old Killers and Their Three-Year-Old Victim

Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years

Young Mandela: The Revolutionary Years

The Sleep of Reason

The Sleep of Reason: The James Bulger Case

Supper with the Crippens: A New Investigation into One of the Most Notorious Crime Cases of the 20th Century

Supper with the Crippens: A New Investigation into One of the Most Notorious Domestic Murders in History

Supper with the Crippens: The true story of one of the most notorious murderers of all time