Author: Peter Chasseaud
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750984902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
This book makes it possible to comprehend, via the trench naming, the daily life in the trenches, the vast range of weaponry and the lethal nature of the titanic battles. Names such as Lovers Lane, Doleful Post, Cyanide Trench and Gangrene Alley are as revealing as any history. While based upon the British trenches, there is a comparison with French and German practice. While a poignant concordance of suffering and an intriguing study of language itself, this book is also a vital research tool for military and family historians.
Gun Alley
Author: Kevin Morgan
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 174273815X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In the early morning of New Year's Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne lane. She had been raped and strangled. In an atmosphere of public frenzy, the police were pushed to find a culprit and charged saloonkeeper Colin Ross with her murder. Rapidly convicted, and with his appeals to higher courts rejected, Ross was hanged - protesting his innocence to the end. Researching the case in 1995, author Kevin Morgan stumbled upon an envelope containing critical evidence: hair samples. During the trial the prosecution claimed hairs found on Ross's blanket matched a sample of Alma's hair. This was the first time such forensic evidence brought a conviction in Australia. Re-examination by modern-day experts has proven the hairs do not match ... Gun Alley is the riveting story of how botched policework, trial by media and lynch-law hysteria spawned a staggering conspiracy to convict and hang an innocent man, and reveals for the first time the vital clues-missed in the original investigation-that point, more than 90 years on, to the true killer. Now updated, this edition documents the extraordinary events leading to the historic pardon and charts the aftermath for the Ross and Tirtschke families as a hanged man's body is recovered from an unmarked prison grave ... ‘Gun Alley is a masterwork of forensic detection.' - Ian Jones ‘This is a winner ... a book written from the heart ...' - Kerry Greenwood
Publisher: Hardie Grant Publishing
ISBN: 174273815X
Category : True Crime
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
In the early morning of New Year's Eve 1921, 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke's naked body was found in Gun Alley, a dead-end Melbourne lane. She had been raped and strangled. In an atmosphere of public frenzy, the police were pushed to find a culprit and charged saloonkeeper Colin Ross with her murder. Rapidly convicted, and with his appeals to higher courts rejected, Ross was hanged - protesting his innocence to the end. Researching the case in 1995, author Kevin Morgan stumbled upon an envelope containing critical evidence: hair samples. During the trial the prosecution claimed hairs found on Ross's blanket matched a sample of Alma's hair. This was the first time such forensic evidence brought a conviction in Australia. Re-examination by modern-day experts has proven the hairs do not match ... Gun Alley is the riveting story of how botched policework, trial by media and lynch-law hysteria spawned a staggering conspiracy to convict and hang an innocent man, and reveals for the first time the vital clues-missed in the original investigation-that point, more than 90 years on, to the true killer. Now updated, this edition documents the extraordinary events leading to the historic pardon and charts the aftermath for the Ross and Tirtschke families as a hanged man's body is recovered from an unmarked prison grave ... ‘Gun Alley is a masterwork of forensic detection.' - Ian Jones ‘This is a winner ... a book written from the heart ...' - Kerry Greenwood
Rats Alley
Author: Peter Chasseaud
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750984902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
This book makes it possible to comprehend, via the trench naming, the daily life in the trenches, the vast range of weaponry and the lethal nature of the titanic battles. Names such as Lovers Lane, Doleful Post, Cyanide Trench and Gangrene Alley are as revealing as any history. While based upon the British trenches, there is a comparison with French and German practice. While a poignant concordance of suffering and an intriguing study of language itself, this book is also a vital research tool for military and family historians.
Publisher: The History Press
ISBN: 0750984902
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 791
Book Description
This book makes it possible to comprehend, via the trench naming, the daily life in the trenches, the vast range of weaponry and the lethal nature of the titanic battles. Names such as Lovers Lane, Doleful Post, Cyanide Trench and Gangrene Alley are as revealing as any history. While based upon the British trenches, there is a comparison with French and German practice. While a poignant concordance of suffering and an intriguing study of language itself, this book is also a vital research tool for military and family historians.
The Compleat Compting-house Companion: Or, Young Merchant and Tradesman's Sure Guide. To which is Added ... a State of the New Duties, on Wines, Cyder, and Perry ... By a Society of Merchants and Tradesmen
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Languages : en
Pages : 676
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Mogg's Street Directory; being an entirely new and correct list of all the streets, squares, lanes, courts, and allies, in London ... To which is added an entire new plan of London and Westminster. By Edward Mogg
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Languages : en
Pages : 192
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Pages : 192
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The Universal British Directory
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Category : Cornwall (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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Category : Cornwall (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 906
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An Alphabetical Index of the Streets, Squares, Lanes, Alleys, &c
Author: John Rocque
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Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Category : Early maps
Languages : en
Pages : 74
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Bowles's New London Guide, etc
Author: Carington BOWLES
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Languages : en
Pages : 182
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Languages : en
Pages : 182
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The New Complete Guide to All Persons who Have Any Trade Or Concern with the City of London, and Parts Adjacent
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Languages : en
Pages : 347
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Languages : en
Pages : 347
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An Alphabetical Index of the Streets
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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Category : London (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
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An Alphabetical Index of the Streets, Squares, Lanes, Alleys, &c. Contained in the Plan of the Cities of London and Westminster, and Borough of Southwark, with the Contiguous Buildings; Engraved by John Pine Bluemantle Pursuivant at Arms, and Chief Engraver of Seals,&c. to His Majesty; from an Actual Survey Made by John Roque; and Printed on Twenty-four Sheets of Imperial Paper; with References for the Easy Finding the Faid Places
Author: John Rocque
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Languages : en
Pages : 58
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