In this investigation into a murder that changed history, Melanson draws on intelligence community sources and interviews with key witnesses (including James Earl Ray) to point out glaring oversights and illogical conclusions in the official explanation of King's assassination.

Reveals for the first time the secret attempts of Robert F. Kennedy and his aides to expose JFK's killers. After RFK was murdered, his associates continued his quest and almost exposed the truth on six different occasions. But each time they were blocked by three Mafia chiefs and a handful of CIA operatives.

Have you ever heard the story on the news of a politician being found dead or committing suicide, and it seemed a little strange to you? This title shows you that, not only were these people murdered, but that it was done by our own government. It lets you find out how Marilyn Monroe was murdered, who really shot Martin Luther King, Jr, and more.

Count Claus von Stauffenberg and Rear Admiral Wilhelm Canaris were two of the leading lights of the German 'Valkyrie' conspiracy to assassinate Adolf Hitler. Theirs was the last of 17 failed attempts to kill the Fuhrer. But fate was to work against them. Hitler was saved from certain death, and Stauffenberg and Canaris made the ultimate sacrifice.

Writing on recent events in the Middle East from Australia's best known foreign correspondent - including the devastating Gaza Flotilla incident.

In this second Quarterly Essay of 2004 Paul McGeough offers a dramatic account of why Iraq remains in chaos despite desperate American efforts to create a model democracy in the Middle East.

As war loomed, reporters from around the world swarmed into Iraq. Paul McGeough was one of a handful - and the only Australian - to cover the entire war from Baghdad. He provides a narrative of the closing days of the brutal dictatorship of Saddam Hussein while under real and present danger.