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Трагедия царского семейства Романовых и возникшие в связи с этим жестоким убийством зловещие слухи, легенды и мистификации до сих пор будоражат воображение людей во всем мире.
Грэг Кинг и Пенни Вильсон предлагают вашему вниманию масштабное исследование этой трагедии. В его основу, кроме широко известных источников, легли около 500 не публиковавшихся прежде документов, среди которых большое количество фотографий, воспоминаний и свидетельств очевидцев.
Изучив вновь открытые исторические материалы, имеющие отношение к судьбе Романовых, авторы книги тщательно проанализировали факты и сделали неожиданные и даже сенсационные выводы, во многом противоречащие ранее сложившейся версии событий.

Неужели княжна Анастасия, дочь последнего русского императора Николая II, осталась жива? И если да - то каким чудом ей удалось спастись во время расстрела царской семьи в Екатеринбурге в июле 1918 года? Или за Анастасию выдавала себя самозванка, польская крестьянка Франциска Шанцковски, взявшая себе псевдоним Анна Андерсен?
Почему семья Романовых сначала признала, а затем решительно отвергла ее?
Можно ли доверять результатам генетической экспертизы и были ли действительно найдены останки всех членов семьи Романовых? И где конец этого исторического детектива XX века?
Авторы книги предложили разгадку одного из самых популярных и очаровательных мифов XX века.

Книга "Убийство, развязавшее войну" вновь обращает читателя к событиям 1914 г., когда две пули, выпущенные сербским националистом Гаврило Принципом в Сараево, унесли жизни Франца Фердинанда и Софии Хотек. С того рокового дня прошел уже целый век. Какое другое событие, кажущееся случайным, на протяжении последнего столетия так повлияло на нашу современность? Эти две пули не только положили конец жизням Франца Фердинанда и Софии: они стали катализатором мировой войны и всех ужасов, которые вместе с ней последовали. Если бы не было Сараево, произошли бы русская революция, Вторая мировая война и "холодная война"?

"Жизнь последней русской императрицы явно делится на две эпохи, и об Александре Федоровне следует судить как о двух разных женщинах. Первая - жена, мать и, наконец, венценосная супруга, дающая сомнительные советы по вопросам, в которых она не компетентна. Вторая предстает перед нами после отречения императора; жизнь ее, полная унижений и страхов, становится дорогой на Голгофу и обрывается в подвале Ипатьевского дома. Но и первую, и вторую объединяет страстная любовь к своему мужу. Первую можно подвергать самой суровой критике, вторая достойна нашего восхищения". Из письма Николая Романовича Романова автору этой книги

Nearly a hundred years ago, two wealthy and privileged teenagers―Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb―were charged and convicted in a gruesome crime that would lead to the original “Trial of the Century”. Even in Jazz Age Chicago, the murder was uniquely shocking for the motive of the killers: well-to-do Jewish scions, full of promise, had killed fourteen-year-old Bobby Franks for the thrill of it. The trial was made even more sensational by the revelation of a love affair between the defendants and by defense attorney Clarence Darrow, who delivered one of the most famous defense summations of all time to save the boys from the death penalty. The story of their mad folie à deux, with Loeb portrayed as the psychopathic mastermind and Leopold as his infatuated disciple, has been endlessly repeated and accepted by history as fact. And none of it is true.

Using twenty-first century investigative tools, forensics, and a modern understanding of the psychology of these infamous killers, Nothing but the Night turns history on its head. While Loeb has long been viewed as the architect behind the murders, King and Wilson’s new research points to Leopold as the dominant partner in the deadly relationship, uncovering a dark obsession with violence and sex. Nothing but the Night pulls readers into the troubled world of Leopold and Loeb, revealing a more horrifying tale of passion, obsession, and betrayal than history ever imagined.

Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers and suffragettes – a microcosm of the last years of the waning Edwardian Era and the coming influences of the Twentieth Century. When she left New York on her final voyage, she sailed from the New World to the Old; yet an encounter with the machinery of the New World, in the form of a primitive German U-Boat, sent her – and her gilded passengers – to their tragic deaths and opened up a new era of indiscriminate warfare.

A hundred years after her sinking, Lusitania remains an evocative ship of mystery. Was she carrying munitions that exploded? Did Winston Churchill engineer a conspiracy that doomed the liner? Lost amid these tangled skeins is the romantic, vibrant, and finally heartrending tale of the passengers who sailed aboard her. Lives, relationships, and marriages ended in the icy waters off the Irish Sea; those who survived were left haunted and plagued with guilt.

Authors Greg King and Penny Wilson resurrect this lost, glittering world to show the golden age of travel and illuminate the most prominent of Lusitania's passengers. Rarely was an era so glamorous; rarely was a ship so magnificent; and rarely was the human element of tragedy so quickly lost to diplomatic maneuvers and militaristic threats.

The truth of the enduring mystery of Anastasia's fate-and the life of her most convincing impostor The passage of more than ninety years and the publication of hundreds of books in dozens of languages has not extinguished an enduring interest in the mysteries surrounding the 1918 execution of the last Russian Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The Resurrection of the Romanovs draws on a wealth of new information from previously unpublished materials and unexplored sources to probe the most enduring Romanov mystery of all: the fate of the Tsar's youngest daughter, Anastasia, whose remains were not buried with those of her family, and her identification with Anna Anderson, the woman who claimed to be the missing Grand Duchess.
Penetrates the intriguing mysteries surrounding the execution of Tsar Nicholas II and the true fate of his daughter, Anastasia
Reveals previously unknown details of Anderson's life as Franziska Schanzkowska
Explains how Anderson acquired her knowledge, why people believed her claim, and how it transformed Anastasia into a cultural phenomenon
Draws on unpublished materials including Schanzkowska family memoirs, legal papers, and exclusive access to private documents of the British and Hessian Royal Families
Includes 75 photographs, dozens published here for the first time
Written by the authors of The Fate of the Romanovs
Refuting long-accepted evidence in the Anderson case, The Resurrection of the Romanovs finally explodes the greatest royal mystery of the twentieth-century.

It began as a home invasion by the "Manson family? in the early hours of August 9, 1969. It ended in a killing spree that left seven people dead: actress Sharon Tate, writer Voyteck Frykowski, coffee heiress Abigail Folger, hair stylist Jay Sebring, student Steven Parent, supermarket owner Leno LaBianca, and his wife, Rosemary. The shock waves of these crimes still reverberate today. They have also, over time, eclipsed the life of their most famous victim – a Dallas beauty queen with Hollywood aspirations. After more than a dozen small film and television roles, Sharon Tate gained international fame with the screen adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's Valley of the Dolls, but The Fearless Vampire Killers marked a personal turning point, as she would marry its star and director, Roman Polanski. Tate now had a new dream: to raise a family – and she was only weeks away from giving birth the night Charles Manson's followers murdered her. Drawn from a wealth of rare material including detective reports, parole transcripts, Manson's correspondence, and revealing new interviews with Tate's friends and costars as well as surviving relatives of the murder victims, Sharon Tate and the Manson Murders gives a vital new perspective on one of the most notorious massacres of the twentieth century.