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On the evening of 21st November 1974, bombs planted by the IRA in two crowded Birmingham pubs exploded, killing 21 people and injuring at least 170. Within a day of the explosion, six men - Paddy Hill, Gerry Hunter, Richard McIlkenny, Billy Power, Johnny Walker and Hughie Callaghan - were arrested and charged. All were found guilty. Methodically, with total clarity and a tone that is both gripping and impassioned, then investigative journalist Mullin unpicked every detail of the case.

In 1967, a Baltimore man named Howard Donahue began investigating the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Like countless Americans, Donahue was fascinated by the events in Dallas. But what separated him from other amateur sleuths, and even the Warren Commission experts, was a lifetime's experience with guns and ballistics. In Mortal Error, Bonar Menninger chronicles Donahue's 25-year investigation of President Kennedy's death and the stunning revelation it led him to.

Sara Daniel, a star European correspondent and one of the few women reporters covering Iraq, dares to venture where few have gone, in this gripping and fascinating memoir. In June of 2002, war looms and Saddam Hussein still has a brutal grip on a nation in disarray. Sara Daniel travels the length and breadth of Iraq, following the fast-evolving events and interviewing people from all walks of life and all religious and political affiliations: from the Kurds in the north to the rising new politicians in Baghdad and beyond....

On January 16, 1991, Speicher participated in the initial air strike of the Persian Gulf War. Moments after an attack by an Iraqi MIG-25, Speicher's plane vanished over the Baghdad desert. The next day, Secretary of State Dick Cheney and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Colin Powell told the American public that Speicher was the first casualty of the Gulf War. He was listed as KIA/BNR.

In Flee from Heresy, Bishop Athanasius Schneider — raised among persecuted Catholics in the Soviet Union — offers a systematic treatment of more than 130 doctrinal errors, from ancient times down to our own day, along with English translations of the Church’s major anti-heresy documents of the past two centuries.

Australia is a proud country full of proud people, but exactly what are we proud of? Comedian and history buff Ben Pobjie delves deep into Australia's past and has a good old rummage amongst the nation's personal effects. With wit, perspicacity and a healthily elastic attitude to historical accuracy, the great saga of Australia is unravelled like an old woolly jumper. For anyone who snoozed through history class at school, this is the book to get you all caught up.

It is 1964, and Chris Nash is 20. His mother is married to Reg, whom Chris thinks is his father. He is, therefore, astonished when she tells him that his real father was a pilot, John Gregson, killed during the Second World War in an accident training Australian air crews. Chris sets out to discover more about the little-known incident. He tracks down his father's only living relative, and visits the site of the crash, near a small church in Bedfordshire.

From the heat of the battlefield to the tension of the strategy room, The Unknown Enemy exposes a hidden threat that can bring even the most formidable military forces to their knees: Theory of Mind Errors. In this gripping exploration, Tim Short peels back the layers of human psychology to reveal how misjudgments, false assumptions, and cognitive traps turn victory into disaster.

El pronunciamiento de julio de 1936 y la guerra civil no fueron inevitables. La República pudo prevenir el golpe de estado y desarticular la conspiración que había ido tejiéndose durante años. Ángel Viñas desvela cómo los servicios de defensa interior y exterior detectaron los riesgos y amenazas de involución, pero también cómo los gobiernos de Azaña y Casares Quiroga desoyeron el ruido de sables contra la democracia.

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Cuando hacemos el recuento de la historia de la humanidad recordamos con orgullo las grandes hazañas, las conquistas, los descubrimientos y las victorias, pero en realidad por cada victoria hay un fracaso y por cada acierto, una infinidad de errores. Por cientos de años los seres humanos hemos metido la pata y, aunque no nos guste admitirlo, nuestra historia también está determinada por todos esos fracasos que nos hacen encoger de hombros.

Error Code 404 is a podcast created to open up the world to different perspectives.

Este libro recoge mi testimonio sobre esos hechos, en lo que respecta, principalmente, a la intervención del gobierno del cual yo hacía parte, como ministro de Justicia, en esos hechos y, en general, sobre lo ocurrido en la Casa de Nariño, durante las 28 horas que duró la Toma y en las horas...

Look closely at almost anything and you’ll find data—lots of it. But when you push past the calculations, what are all those numbers really saying about who we are and what we believe? CNN’s Harry Enten is on a mission to find out. This season on Margins of Error, Harry teases out big ideas like what accents say about where we live, how much money it takes to be happy, and whether the U.S. should finally switch to the metric system.

Fueron muchas las razones por las que el Tercer Reich no produjo nunca una bomba atómica. Entre ellas, que no creyeron poder lograrlo antes de que acabara la guerra y se concentraron en otras cosas más perentorias. Pero esta creencia obedeció en parte a un error científico crucial, que les hizo pensar que la energía nuclear estaba mucho más lejos de lo que quizá podría haber estado. ¿Pudo ser diferente? ¿Existió alguna posibilidad de que la Alemania Nazi consiguiese la bomba atómica a tiempo y así cambiar el curso de la Historia para siempre? Pues... sí, pudo ser. Esta es la ...

Emprenda un viaje épico a través de los divertidísimos errores y las desconcertantes meteduras de pata que dieron forma a las civilizaciones. Más que simples errores, este libro sobre fracasos épicos en la historia antigua es un testimonio de la resistencia de la humanidad y de la capacidad de las personas para aprender, adaptarse y avanzar a pesar de las circunstancias. Este libro lo llevará en un viaje a través del tiempo, permitiéndole ser testigo del lado entrañablemente humano de nuestros antepasados.

Half a Bubble Off Level is a 50,000-word young adult nonfiction book designed to be a supplementary text for middle school and high school social science classes. It gives an overview of 15 significant historical theories and their real world applications. The subjects and personalities include the Elenctic Method, Council of Nicaea, Martin Luther, Karl Marx, Charles Darwin, Henry Ford, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, Credit, and Externalities. The chapters are written in a light, breezy fashion so that the concepts are understandable.