The encyclopedia of kidnappings. /
Newton, Michael
The encyclopedia of kidnappings. / Michael Newton. - New York, N.Y. : Checkmark Books, c2002. - vii, 373 p. : ill. 28 cm.
Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the famous aviator's infant son whose kidnapping and death remain a mystery Child Abductions, a national dilemma defined with updated facts and figures King Richard, The Lion Heart, who was kidnapped by Austrian Duke Leopold V while returning from the Third Crusade in 1192 Missisippi White Knights of the Ku Lux Klan, perpetrators of the infamous kidnap and murder of the three civil rights volunteers during the freedom Summer of 1964 Patty Herst, the kidnapping victim who joined ranks with her kidnappers and was later jailed for her involvement in a bank heist Skyjacking, the form of kidnapping widely believed to be a modern phenomena but first committed in 1931, etc. the 37-month ordeal of 53 Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran in 1979 The Disappeared, a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died in the hands of the military junta Provides a cross section of kidnappers and their victims, and explores the details and circumtances surrounding each kidnapping case. Topics include the American Embassy Hostage Crisis
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Abduction
Kidnapping
The encyclopedia of kidnappings. / Michael Newton. - New York, N.Y. : Checkmark Books, c2002. - vii, 373 p. : ill. 28 cm.
Charles Lindbergh, Jr., the famous aviator's infant son whose kidnapping and death remain a mystery Child Abductions, a national dilemma defined with updated facts and figures King Richard, The Lion Heart, who was kidnapped by Austrian Duke Leopold V while returning from the Third Crusade in 1192 Missisippi White Knights of the Ku Lux Klan, perpetrators of the infamous kidnap and murder of the three civil rights volunteers during the freedom Summer of 1964 Patty Herst, the kidnapping victim who joined ranks with her kidnappers and was later jailed for her involvement in a bank heist Skyjacking, the form of kidnapping widely believed to be a modern phenomena but first committed in 1931, etc. the 37-month ordeal of 53 Americans taken hostage by Iranian students in Tehran in 1979 The Disappeared, a term coined in Argentina for those who vanished and presumably died in the hands of the military junta Provides a cross section of kidnappers and their victims, and explores the details and circumtances surrounding each kidnapping case. Topics include the American Embassy Hostage Crisis
816044872
Abduction
Kidnapping
