Titres dans Historique

À travers ces pages, il plonge le lecteur au cœur de dix mois d'audience en revenant sur les dates et mécanismes qui l'ont le plus marqué : sa déposition, son statut de victime et chroniqueur pour France Info, la constitution partie civile de son épouse, les dépositions clés, la prise de paroles des accusés ou encore l'écoute déchirante de la bande-son de l'attentat du Bataclan... Son récit trace un chemin semé d'embûches où la justice, au-delà de la sanction contre les auteurs, répare les victimes et apaise les blessures.

Pubblicato nell'estate del 1764, "Dei delitti e delle pene" gettava con coraggio le basi dell'attuale organizzazione della giustizia, in contrasto con la Chiesa e la classe dirigente aristocratica. Separare il delitto dal peccato, volere una giustizia umana, rigorosa e non arbitraria, considerare i cittadini come individui liberi e uguali di fronte alla legge: tutto ciò non poteva non suscitare aspre e accese polemiche in ogni angolo d'Italia e d'Europa.

In Cult Following, Ocker sheds light on the terrifying attraction of cults, demonstrating the elasticity of belief, the desperateness of belonging, and the tragedy of trust.

Ontrafel fascinerende historische mysteries en leer waarom de meest beruchte verdwijningen altijd onopgelost blijven. Tijdens je dagelijkse woon-werkverkeer of een lange avondwandeling word je meegesleept in een sfeervol en intellectueel prikkelend onderzoek naar het verleden. Je kruipt in de...

“It’s me, love … I’m The Yorkshire Ripper.” With new material from personal interviews with Peter Sutcliffe – I’m the Yorkshire Ripper offers a completely new insight into the shocking life and times of one of Britain’s most notorious serial killers. When Peter Sutcliffe spoke...

A Finalist for The Killer Nashville Silver Falchion Award An examination of those who vanish in the wilderness without a trace, and the eccentric, determined characters who try to find them. Perfect for readers of Jon Krakauer and Douglas Preston. "A compassionate, sympathetic, and haunting book...

The British Empire stole a lot of stuff. Much of it still sits in museums, galleries and private collections today, accompanied by calm labels and polite plaques. The reality, however, is far messier. The British Museum alone holds eight million objects, many taken in ways that were anything but...

In 1985 John Corcoran, a garda informer within the ranks of the Cork IRA, was abducted and brutally executed by the IRA. No one has ever been charged with his murder, but for decades, speculation was rife that gardaí of the highest rank allowed Corcoran – a father of eight – to be murdered...

Bloomsbury presents The Peepshow by Kate Summerscale, read by Nicola Walker. FROM BRITAIN'S TOP-SELLING TRUE CRIME WRITER WINNER OF THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Financial Times, Spectator, Independent, Tablet and New Statesman 'I loved...

THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER ‘Hums with living history, human warmth and indignation’ New York Times Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept The mystery has haunted generations since the Second World War: Who betrayed Anne Frank and her family? And why? Now, thanks to radical new...

In 1981, ambitious young Ma Anand Sheela transported the Indian guru Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh to the United States to fulfill his dream of creating a utopia for his thousands of disciples. Four years later, the incendiary Rajneeshpuram commune in Oregon collapsed under the weight of audacious criminal conspiracies hatched in its inner sanctum, including the largest bioterrorism attack in US history, an unprecedented election fraud scheme, and multiple attempted murders. Rajneeshpuram explores how this extraordinary spiritual community went so wrong.

The Brutish Museums sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. Since its first publication, museums across the western world have begun to return their Bronzes to Nigeria, heralding a new era in the way we understand the collections of empire we once took for granted.

De prisiones, putas y pistolas es la historia de una amistad y también de una promesa, de cómo dos amigos trazan un plan y lo llevan a cabo, no en elegantes despachos ministeriales, ni en los restaurantes más selectos, ni tan siquiera en las agencias de inteligencia estatales, sino en grises oficinas de los funcionarios anónimos, en los pasillos de las prisiones o en conversaciones telefónicas, y que consiguen que los esforzados y a veces desencantados servidores públicos, encargados de lidiar con la decepción y la mala leche, y a los que nadie otorgará nunca medallas al mérito, sean quienes l

Less a mystery unsolved than a secret well kept... Using new technology, recently discovered documents and sophisticated investigative techniques, an international team—led by an obsessed retired FBI agent—has finally solved the mystery that has haunted generations since World War II: Who...

Crime doesn't just pay, it tells. What we choose to ban, penalise or prosecute says something about us; and how far the mobsters and mafias are still able to ply their trades says something about us, too. Homo Criminalis tells a thrilling tale of the world's changing values, the rise of the...

It was heaven on earth—and, some whispered, the devil’s garden. Thousands came by trains and carriages to see this new Eden, carved from hundreds of acres of wild woodland. They marveled at orchards bursting with fruit, thick herds of Ayrshire cattle and Cotswold sheep, and whizzing mills. They gaped at the people who lived in this place—especially the women, with their queer cropped hair and shamelessly short skirts. The men and women of this strange outpost worked and slept together—without sin, they claimed.

V13: So lautet der Codename für den Prozess um die Terroranschläge in Paris, bei denen am Freitag, den 13. November 2015 in der Konzerthalle Bataclan, auf Caféterrassen im Osten der Stadt und vor dem Stade de France, wo das Länderspiel Frankreich – Deutschland ausgetragen wurde, 130 Menschen in den Tod gerissen wurden. Emmanuel Carrère besuchte die Verhandlungen vom ersten bis zum letzten Tag und berichtet über die daran Beteiligten, das Grauen, unverhoffte Menschlichkeit und die Maschine der Rechtsprechung.

Plongez au cœur de l’histoire criminelle du XIXe siècle et d’avant avec Dossiers Oubliés – Volume 3. À travers 15 récits authentiques et minutieusement documentés, redécouvrez des affaires réelles — parfois célèbres, souvent effacées de la mémoire collective — qui ont marqué leur époque par leur cruauté, leur mystère ou leur impact judiciaire. Chaque chapitre s’appuie sur des faits vérifiables, tirés d’archives, de journaux d’époque et de documents historiques, pour restituer avec précision le contexte, les protagonistes et les zones d’ombre de ces crimes d’un autre temps.

A delightfully comic and touchingly romantic interlude in which Colin Clark describes for the first time what happened between Marilyn Monroe and himself during the missing week in The Prince, the Showgirl and Me. In 1956, fresh from Eton and Oxford, the 23-year-old Colin Clark (son of ‘Lord...

Volume two of One Nation Under Blackmail examines the rise of Jeffrey Epstein and his closest associates, such as Leslie Wexner and Ghislaine Maxwell, and contextualizes them within the organized crime-intelligence networks detailed in-depth in volume one. It subsequently details their ties, with a focus on Epstein, to intelligence networks, espionage activity, and the subversion of American institutions, as well as the role of Epstein and the Maxwell family in the evolution of blackmail in the digital era.