In these thirteen classic case histories of murder by poisoning are wives despatching husbands for their money, and lovers killing for passion. There are the psychopathic and deranged like Graham Young, who administered lethal concoctions just to see what would happen, and obsessive poisoners like Tillie Gburek, a middle-aged woman who found a taste for making deadly soups. Also in this gallery of killers is the so-called Angel of Death, Nurse Waddington, who ran her own nursing home.

A Gallery Of Poisoners (U) (Ulverscroft Large Print Series)

Vincent, Adrian

Cookbooks, Food & Wine

Ulverscroft

A Companion to Victorian and Edwardian Artists

Arts & Photography

DAVID CHARLES PLC

<p>Looks at the history of British maritime painting in the nineteenth century, the schools, styles, and techniques employed, and presents brief biographies of the artists</p>

19th Century Maritime Watercolours

David & Charles, UK

This is a guide through the fashions of the last 100 years of British painting spiced with details of the artists. It relates the problems faced by the modern marine artist - why he finds no inspiration in modern ships - and explains why representational art has remained supreme in the face of Cubism, Futurism, Impressionism and Pop Art. The book includes some 70 colour plates.

100 Years of Traditional British Painting

History & Criticism

David&Charles

History

After years of neglect by dealers and the general public, who dismissed much Victorian and Edwardian art as trivial and sentimental, paintings of that era are now eagerly sought after. The revival of interest has resulted in dramatic price increases in the auction rooms and galleries. This book contains entries on more than 350 Victorian and Edwardian artists, focusing not only on the product of their artistic labours but also on their often unorthodox lifestyles. Some of the artists represented, such as David Wilkie, John Lavery and William Mulready, were successful and widely respected during their lifetimes, but many others pursued their careers for many years without recognition or financial gain and died in obscurity. The 250 colour plates - landscapes and seascapes, genre paintings, portraits and still life - aim to cover the rich diversity of 19th-century art.

Children (Victorian Watercolours)

Michael Joseph, Ltd.

Killers in Uniform

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

/ 1854710214 / History of art / Engels / English / Anglais / Englisch / hard cover / 26 x 20 cm / 60² .pp /

Watercolours:Children

Bloomsbury Books

<p>The honest account of one prisoner-of-war’s struggle to survive through five years of Nazi imprisonment. An essential book for readers of Horace Greasley, Alistair Urquhart and Heather Morris.\nOn a cold May morning in 1940, Adrian Vincent arrived in France with his battalion.\nHis war didn’t last long.\nWithin five days the Siege of Calais was over and nearly all his comrades were killed, wounded or, like him, taken prisoner.\nAfter a brutal journey across the breadth of Germany, Vincent and his fellow survivors began their life in Stalag VIIIB, set to work in terrible conditions down a Polish mine.\nFor the next five years they waged a war not against enemy soldiers, but instead versus monotony, disease, cruelty, starvation and hopelessness.\n“The most honest prisoner-of-war story I have read in the last ten years.” Leicester Mercury\n“Mr. Vincent has the admirable intention of entertaining the reader, and this he does very successfully. His style is deft and concise. He has a nice wit and his characters emerge as life-like and life-size figures” Times Literary Supplement\n“Vincent tells his story with humour, sympathy and observation.” The Sphere\nThe Long Road Home is a remarkably truthful memoir of what it was like to be a prisoner during the Second World War. Vincent does not portray himself or his comrades as heroes, but instead what they really were: survivors.</p>

The Long Road Home: An account of the author's experiences as a prisoner-of-war in the hands of the Germans during the Second World War (Memoirs from World War Two)

Europe

Sapere Books

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