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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On the morning of May 29, 1953, two men stood on the summit of Mount Everest, the first human beings ever to do so. One was Edmund Hillary, a beekeeper from New Zealand. The other was Tenzing Norgay, a Sherpa from the high valleys of the Himalaya. They had climbed together, roped as one team, to the highest point on Earth, after thirty years of failed attempts had turned back the best climbers of several nations. This is the story of Tenzing Norgay, told with him at its center. For too long he was cast as the loyal porter who helped the climbers to the top. The truth is larger. By 1953, Tenzing had been to Everest more times than almost anyone alive, had climbed higher on it than any human being, and reached the summit as a mountaineer of the first rank, not as a helper. Built from the public record, including the memoirs of Tenzing and Hillary, the official expedition account, and credentialed histories, this book follows the whole arc: the boy drawn to the mountains, the long years of expeditions, the near miss with the Swiss in 1952, the great expedition of 1953, the deadly icefall, the partnership sealed on a rope, the last camp, and the summit itself. It also tells of the news that reached London on coronation morning, the question of who stepped onto the top first, and the legacy of the man who lifted his people into history. The long-debated question of who was first is handled as the two climbers themselves resolved it: they reached the top together, as a team. Where the record is uncertain, this book says so. What emerges is a careful, moving account of the first ascent of Everest, with Tenzing Norgay restored to his rightful place at its heart.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In 2002, two people were shot to death in a Topeka home. Their names were Michael Sisco and Karen Harkness. For nine years, no one was charged. Then the authorities charged Sisco's former wife, Dana Chandler. A jury convicted her. And that was only the beginning. Chandler's conviction was reversed by the Kansas Supreme Court, which found that the prosecutor had committed serious misconduct, including telling the jury about a protective order that did not exist. The prosecutor was later disbarred. Chandler was tried again. A jury could not agree. She was tried a third time, and convicted again. Through all of it, she has maintained her innocence. Built entirely from the public record, the appellate decisions, the trial files, the disciplinary records, and years of reporting, this book tells a genuinely contested case with the honesty it demands. It states the convictions as the facts they are. It states the misconduct and the reversal as the documented facts they are. It lays out the doubts, no eyewitness, no recovered murder weapon, a case built on circumstance and confirmation bias, fairly and fully. And it declines to resolve what the record cannot. Clear, fair, and disciplined, it keeps the victims at its center and refuses the easy certainties of innocence or guilt. It is the story of a conviction that stands, a doubt that will not be stilled, and two people whose murder should not be forgotten in the contest over who ended their lives.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - K2 is the second-highest mountain on earth and the hardest of the great peaks to climb. For the whole history of the sport, one prize remained: no one had ever climbed it in winter. In the winter of 2021, that changed, and the season that claimed the last great first also took five lives. On 16 January 2021, a team of ten Nepali climbers stood together on the summit in the killing cold and sang their national anthem. It was one of the proudest days in the history of mountaineering, and it belonged to the climbers whose people had made so much of the sport possible and had so rarely been credited. Weeks later, on 5 February, three climbers went for the summit and never came down: John Snorri of Iceland, Muhammad Ali Sadpara of Pakistan, and Juan Pablo Mohr of Chile. Ali Sadpara's son Sajid turned back near the Bottleneck when his oxygen failed, and that failure saved his life. In the summer, he climbed back up to find his father. Built entirely from the public record, the contemporary reporting, the season analyses, and the accounts of the survivor and the families, this book tells the whole season honestly. It credits the Nepali team with the triumph that is theirs. It gives the three lost climbers their names and their dignity. And it refuses to invent a final scene for men who passed beyond the reach of any witness. Clear, fair, and deeply human, this is the story of the winter that answered the last great question in mountaineering, and of what it cost. Triumph and tragedy, in one season, on one mountain, held together.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A little before eleven o'clock on the night of 8 May 2008, a Las Vegas man called 911. A masked intruder had shot his wife, he said, and he had shot the intruder dead, only to find it was his own handyman. It looked like a home invasion and a grieving widower. It was not. Thomas Randolph had been married six times. Two wives divorced him and lived. The others died. One death, in 1986, brought a murder charge and an acquittal. The death of his sixth wife, Sharon Causse, brought a conviction that took two trials, a reversal, and sixteen years to make stick. Drawing only on the court record, the Nevada Supreme Court's decisions, and the reporting of the journalists who covered the case in the courtroom, this book tells the whole story with unusual care. It centers the people who died, Sharon Causse and the second victim, Michael Miller. It separates what the law proved from what the pattern only suggests. And it states, every time, that the 1986 case ended in an acquittal. Clear, fair, and fully sourced, this is the real history behind the nickname, the Black Widower, and behind the long, patient work that finally answered for two murders in a Las Vegas house. …

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - In June 1381, tens of thousands of English commoners marched on London. Within days they had broken open the city's gates, burned the finest house in the kingdom, executed the two most powerful officials in England, and stood face to face with a fourteen-year-old king who had to decide, in a single desperate afternoon, whether to negotiate or die.This is the full story of the Peasants' Revolt: a plague that killed a third of England and reshaped its economy, a law written to freeze wages after that plague, a costly war in France that emptied the royal treasury, and three poll taxes that finally broke the patience of the English countryside. It follows Wat Tyler and the preacher John Ball from obscurity to the center of English history, traces the march on London hour by hour, and recounts the two extraordinary royal meetings, at Mile End and Smithfield, where a boy king met the rebels face to face.Drawing on the medieval chronicles and the modern historians who have tested them against the documentary record, this book tells the rising honestly: what the sources agree on, where they contradict each other, and what the revolt actually changed in the century that followed, when the system of English serfdom it failed to abolish by charter nonetheless began, slowly, to disappear.Clear, carefully sourced, and honest about the limits of six-hundred-year-old evidence, this is the real history behind England's largest medieval uprising.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On the night of June 4, 1944, a Scottish meteorologist named James Stagg told General Dwight Eisenhower that the invasion of Europe could not go forward as planned. Less than twenty-four hours later, he came back with a different answer: a narrow, imperfect break in the weather, just enough to try. Eisenhower gave the order, and the largest amphibious invasion in history launched into marginal seas the next morning.This book tells the full story of that forecast: the three Allied forecasting teams who read the same data differently, the rigid tidal and lunar window that would not reopen for two weeks if the early window was missed, the postponement of the original June 5 launch, and the tense predawn meeting at Southwick House where Stagg presented the narrow window that became June 6. It follows the story onto the beaches themselves, comparing the forecast to the conditions actually encountered, and into the storm that struck two weeks later, in the alternate window the invasion would otherwise have used.Built from Stagg's own 1971 memoir, Forecast for Overlord, and the standard historical scholarship on Operation Overlord, this book treats the forecast honestly as what it was: not a certainty, but the best available professional judgment, delivered under conditions of genuine uncertainty, and acted upon by a commander who accepted full personal responsibility for the outcome.Clear, carefully sourced, and honest about how close the margin for error actually was, this is the real story behind one of the most consequential weather calls in military history.…

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Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On 5 August 2010, a mountain in the Atacama Desert of Chile gave way. A slab of rock the weight of a skyscraper sealed the San Jose mine and trapped thirty-three men seven hundred meters underground. For sixty-nine days they lived in the heat and the dark while, above them, one of the greatest rescues in history slowly took shape. For the first seventeen days, no one on the surface even knew they were alive. The men rationed a few days of food across more than two weeks. They held together when despair would have been easy. Then a drill broke through, and a note came up in red ink: they were well, in the refuge, all thirty-three. What followed was watched by much of the planet, an improvised feat of engineering and cooperation that brought the men, one by one, back to the light. Built from the public record, the book-length accounts written with the miners, the reporting of the world's press, and the official record of the rescue, this book tells the whole story. The mine and the men. The collapse and the silence. The lifeline through the rock. The three drilling plans and the race against time. The breakthrough, the capsule named for rebirth, and the day the world watched thirty-three men rise from the earth. Clear, fair, and deeply human, it keeps the miners at its center as the working men they were, honors the vast effort that saved them, and asks the harder questions the triumph can hide, about the dangerous mine that should never have trapped them, and the lives they returned to. It is the story of sixty-nine days, and of the half mile of rock that gave thirty-three men back.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - A double murder in daylight. A locked house. A daughter who said she was in the barn. On 4 August 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were killed with a hatchet in their home on Second Street in Fall River, Massachusetts, and within a week their daughter Lizzie was under arrest. This is the full story of the case that America has never let go: the mill city and the family that lived at its edge, the strange week before the killings, the morning itself told hour by hour from sworn testimony, the investigation that missed a burning dress, and the New Bedford trial whose two rulings decided everything before the jury retired. Drawing only on court records, police statements, and the newspapers of the time, this book separates what is known from what is merely believed. It follows Lizzie Borden through her acquittal and her thirty-four silent years afterward, and it weighs every theory, from the maid to the uncle to the sister, without pretending to a certainty the evidence cannot give. Clear, carefully sourced, and honest about its own limits, it is the book for anyone who wants the real history behind the rhyme, the trial, and the case that still haunts American true crime.…

Taschenbuch. Condition: Neu. Neuware - On a summer morning in 2014, law professor Dan Markel drove home from the gym and was shot in his own garage. He died the next day. He was forty-one, a respected scholar, and the father of two young sons. At first, no one knew who had killed him, or why.The answer, when it came, was extraordinary. Markel had not been killed by a stranger or a robber. He had been killed, prosecutors proved, by hired men, in a murder-for-hire plot that grew out of a bitter divorce and a fight over where his children would live. It took years, an undercover sting, and a series of trials to establish what had happened, and the case reached, step by step, from two hired killers in Miami into the family at the center of the conflict.Built entirely from the public record, the court files, the trial testimony, and years of reporting, this book tells the whole story. The man and the marriage. The murder and the baffling investigation. The rented car that cracked the case. The hired killers, the intermediary, and the money. The undercover operation. The trials, the mistrial, and the convictions. And the disciplined truth about who was convicted, who was charged, and who was never charged at all.Careful, fair, and fully sourced, it keeps Dan Markel at its center and holds the distinctions that justice requires, a true-crime account that refuses to convict anyone the law has not. It is the story of a good man's murder, and of the long, hard road to justice that followed.…

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