The first book ever to be written on the complete trial of the Yorkshire Ripper.
Richard Cobb Book order
Richard Cobb was a British historian whose unconventional academic path, marked by years of independent archival research in France, deeply informed his seminal work on the background to the French Revolution. This dedication to primary sources and meticulous detail became the hallmark of his approach to history. Beyond his scholarly achievements, Cobb is also celebrated for his insightful autobiographical writings, offering readers a unique personal perspective. His work is celebrated for its profound understanding of historical forces and the human condition.
- 2023
- 2022
Using the original police reports, state of the art photographs, unseen images and diagrams, they present the truth about what actually happened in the autumn of 1888.
- 2019
This is the real story of the terrifying murders that tore families and communities apart. The author separates fact from fiction, looking for the truth behind the myth.
- 2004
Paris and Elsewhere: Selected Writings
- 334 pages
- 12 hours of reading
The book offers a unique perspective on France through the eyes of Richard Cobb, an Oxford historian deeply enamored with the country. It explores his experiences in lesser-known locales, from low dives to flophouses, and highlights his connections to Paris and other French cities. Featuring memoirs and portraits of beloved places, as well as critiques of notable figures like Simenon and Queneau, it presents an authentic view of France that contrasts sharply with the typical tourist experience.
- 1998
"Like Eric Hobsbawm and E.P. Thompson, Richard Cobb had a gift for understanding great historic events in terms of ordinary human relations. Here for the first time Cobb's widely admired chronicles of daily life in Revolutionary France are gathered into one volume with an illuminating introduction by his former pupil, historian David Gilmour."--BOOK JACKET.
- 1988
The French Revolution Voices from a momentous epoch 1789-1795
- 1985
"A blend of hilarity and pathos, entertainment and horrow, superbly written and painfully honest, this autobiography contains at its heart the story of a brutal and bloody murder.
- 1983
Still Life Sketches from a Tunbridge Wells Childhood
- 1983
French and Germans. Germans and French
A Personal Interpretation of France Under Two Occupations, 1914-1918/1940-1944
An extraordinary history of French lives under occupation in the First and Second World Wars, this is an intimate, unforgettable meditation on the strange mixture of compromise and betrayal, collaboration and resistance that marks defeat, written by one of the greatest historians of France
