Only four men commanded Nazi extermination (as opposed to concentration) camps. Franz Stangl was one of the. Gitta Serenys investigation of this mans mind & of the influences which shaped him has become a classic. Stangl commanded Treblinka & was found guilty of co-responsibility for the slaughter there of at least 900 000 people. Sereny after weeks of talk with him & months of further research shows us this man as he saw himself & as he was seen by many others including his wife. To horrify is not Serenys aim though horror is inevitable. She is seeking an answer to the question which beggars reason: How were human beings turned into instruments of such overwhelming evil? ...

Haunting captivating & totally extraordinary. Into That Forest" will have the same impact as " Life of Pi" " How I Live Now" & " The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas". This is the story of two girls lost in the Tasmanian bush saved & raised by two Tasmanian tigers. Our story starts with an old woman acutely aware of her own Imminent death looking back on a lifetime ago when death stared her in the face once before. As we hear the story of these two young girls we marvel as to how they could have survived in the wild for four years. & then we must confront the painful question: how do you return to civilization when something like this has happened? " Into That Forest" reads like a true story
- its in turn wonderful truly moving & shocking. Youll never forget it."
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Six people lost their lives in the plane crash. Four men found theirs. On a wintry October night in 1984 a Piper Navajo commuter plane bound for remote communities in northern Canada set off into thick cloud & freezing rain. One hour later the plane smashed headlong into a high ridge of rugged forest. Of the ten people on board only four
- strangers from wildly different backgrounds
- survived the crash: Erik the young pilot who had never wanted to fly in such bad weather in the first place. Larry a respected politician & family man. Scott a rookie cop who against regulations had unshackled the prisoner he was escorting to face charges. & Paul: a criminal & the only one to escape the crash uninjured. The only one capable of keeping the other three alive
- should he choose to. Into the Abyss is an incredible story of tragedy & hope; of four lives changed for ever by the fierce crucible of a deadly night in the wilderness & by the events that followed.


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Still unsolved still baffling still claiming new victims
- Here are the untold stories. A pilot reports a strange haze enveloping
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Harry Barnett is a middle-aged failure. Leading a shabby existence in the shadow of a past disgrace he is reduced to caretaking a friends villa on the island of Rhodes & working in a bar to earn his keep. Then a guest at the villa
- a young woman he had instantly & innocently warmed to
- disappears on a mountain peak. Under suspicion of her murder Harry stumbles on a set of photographs taken in the weeks before her disappearance. Obsessed by the mystery that has changed his life & determined to clear his name he begins to trace back the movements & encounters that led to the moment when she vanished into the blue. The trail leads him back to England to a world he thought he had left for ever
- & a past he has tried desperately to forget.


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As lovely as one of the precious gems at her parents' jewellery store Amber Taylor is shy & introspective
- qualities misread by
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An atmospheric exploration of a child's anxiety by the 2000 Hans Christian Andersen Medal Winner. One night a boy is woken by a terrible sound. A storm is breaking lightning flashing across the sky. In the morning Dad is gone & Mum doesn't seem to know when he'll be back. The next day Mum asks her son to take a cake to his sick grandma. Don't go into the forest " she warns. " Go the long way round." But for the first time the boy chooses to take the path into the forest where he meets a variety of fairy tale characters & discovers the fate of his father." ...

' The price of life is death'. For Mallory as for all of his generation death was but 'a frail barrier that men crossed smiling & gallant every day'. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. What mattered now was how one lived & the moments of being alive. While the quest for Mount Everest may have begun as a grand imperial gesture it ended as a mission of revival for a country & a lost generation bled white by war. In a monumental work of history & adventure Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest but rather why he kept climbing on that fateful day. ...

If the quest for Mount Everest began as a grand imperial gesture as redemption for an empire of explorers that had lost the race to the Poles it ended as a mission of regeneration for a country & a people bled white by war. Of the twenty-six British climbers who on three expeditions (1921-24) walked 400 miles off the map to find & assault the highest mountain on Earth twenty had seen the worst of the fighting. Six had been severely wounded two others nearly killed by disease at the Front one hospitalized twice with shell shock. Three as army surgeons dealt for the duration with the agonies of the dying. Two lost brothers killed in action. All had endured the slaughter the coughing of the guns the bones & barbed wire the white faces of the dead. In a monumental work of history & adventure ten years in the writing Wade Davis asks not whether George Mallory was the first to reach the summit of Everest but rather why he kept on climbing on that fateful day. His answer lies in a single phrase uttered by one of the survivors as they retreated from the mountain: The price of life is death. Mallory walked on because for him as for all of his generation death was but a frail barrier that men crossed smiling & gallant every day. As climbers they accepted a degree of risk unimaginable before the war. They were not cavalier but death was no stranger. They had seen so much that it had no hold on them. What mattered was how one lived the moments of being alive. For all of them Everest had become an exalted radiance a sentinel in the sky a symbol of hope in a world gone mad. ...

Paul Broks draws on his long experience as a neuropsychologist to create a unique mosaic of neurological tales metaphysical parables & autobiographical reflections. Interspersing real life stories with speculative fictions Into the Silent Land describes ordinary people whose extraordinary situations have much to teach us about chance compassion & human resilience in the face of adversity. It is a book that penetrates the readers imagination & lingers in the memory long after the final page. ...