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| | | |  | Secret societies have flourished throughout history, capturing the public imagination and generating fear, suspicion and above all fascination. Reynolds treats the reader to a behind-the-scenes look at the origins, initiations, secret signs and famous members of the most notorious secret societies of all time. Included are chapters on the Cosa Nostra, Al Qaeda, the Triads, the Assassins, the Yakuza, Kabbalah, the Freemasons and the Druids.
Does a global power actually control the election of world leaders? Are some secret societies little more than a group of boys playing at secret handshakes? Based on exhaustive research, with an emphasis on authenticity rather than speculation, Secret Societies will grip readers from the opening page. autor: John Lawrence Reynolds issn: 9781848395428 data: 2007.10.01 cena: 8.99 PLN |
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| | | |  | In 1942 the young soldier Arthur Dodd was taken prisoner by the German Army and transported to Oswiecim in Polish Upper Silesia. The German name for the place was ?Auschwitz?: a name now synonymous with man?s darkest hour. Auschwitz-Birkenau, the most infamous German death-camp of the Second World War, functioned for the incarceration and extermination of those that the third Reich deemed ?undesirables?: Jews, homosexuals, Communists. What is less known is that it was the fate of hundreds of British POWs to find it their prison, and to behold the atrocities meted out by Hitler?s SS. This is the true story of one of those witnesses. Forced to do hard labour, starved and savagely beaten, Arthur thought his life would end in Auschwitz. Determined to go down fighting, he sabotaged Nazi industrial work, risked his life to alleviate the suffering of the Jewish prisoners, and aided a partisan group planning a mass break-out. autor: Colin Rushton issn: 1840247932 data: 2007.07.02 cena: 45.44 PLN |
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| | | |  | The business of death can be seriously absurd, and nothing illustrates this better than these gruesome true tales. This gory compendium details the frankly ridiculous ways in which a number of ill-fated unfortunates met (or failed to meet) their maker at the hands of lamentably inept executioners. With black and white illustrations, this book brings together a mixture of bungled executions, strange last requests and classic one-liners from medieval times to the present day. autor: Geoffrey Abbott issn: 1840249463 data: 2006.06.05 cena: 7.99 PLN |
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| | | |  | In his own darkly humorous style, Geoffrey Abbott describes such hair-raising categories as death by cannibalism, being sewn into an animal?s belly and a thousand cuts, and reveals the macabre origins of familiar phrases such as ?gone west? or ?drawn a blank? as well as the jargon of the underworld. autor: Geoffrey Abbott issn: 184024903X data: 2005.01.10 cena: 9.99 PLN |
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