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16 September 2005, 09:15 AM
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OK, did you ever read the true story of the Moors Murderers? I think it's called "Beyond Belief" or something like that, and it's by Emlyn Williams?
VERY well written, and one of THE most disturbing books I ever read.
After it, try Val McDermid's "A Place of Execution"........fiction, but wow!
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OK, did you ever read the true story of the Moors Murderers? I think it's called "Beyond Belief" or something like that, and it's by Emlyn Williams?
VERY well written, and one of THE most disturbing books I ever read.
After it, try Val McDermid's "A Place of Execution"........fiction, but wow!
Alcazar
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16 September 2005, 09:36 AM
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Paul Britton - The Jigsaw Man. True story of the beginnings of crime profiling , including some VERY famous cases worked on by the author.
Lance Armstrong - It's not about the bike - The story of his fight against, and recovery from cancer - very moving, but dont bother with the sequel
Simon Singh - The Code Book. Fairly simple history of codes and code breaking from Greek Times up to the current public key encryption methods for electronic communications (Fermats Last Theorem by the same author is good, but you need a strong maths bias to appreciate it)
James Gleik (sp?) - Chaos Theory - bit mathematical, but eye-opening if you havent come across the concepts
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Lance Armstrong - It's not about the bike - The story of his fight against, and recovery from cancer - very moving, but dont bother with the sequel
Simon Singh - The Code Book. Fairly simple history of codes and code breaking from Greek Times up to the current public key encryption methods for electronic communications (Fermats Last Theorem by the same author is good, but you need a strong maths bias to appreciate it)
James Gleik (sp?) - Chaos Theory - bit mathematical, but eye-opening if you havent come across the concepts
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16 September 2005, 09:43 AM
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Originally Posted by alcazar
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16 September 2005, 10:01 AM
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If you are familiar with Siegfried Sassoon's "War Poems" and "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" you might also enjoy his equally excellent "Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man" as I know you have said it is a subject that you are interested in. 
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Originally Posted by ajm
If you are familiar with Siegfried Sassoon's "War Poems" and "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer" you might also enjoy his equally excellent "Memoirs of a Fox-hunting Man" as I know you have said it is a subject that you are interested in.
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