User:Ceesharp

I am an investigative historian, filmmaker and author residing in Toronto, Canada. I hold a Ph.D. in the history of espionage in international relations and criminal justice history from the University of Toronto and lecture in the history of the Third Reich, International Relations, Espionage and the American Civil War at Ryerson University.

My dissertation, Combat, Memory and Remembrance in Confederation Era Canada:The Hidden History of the Battle of Ridgeway, June 2, 1866 was recently published by Penguin Books Canada - Allen Lane Books in 2011 as Ridgeway: The American Fenian Invasion and the 1866 Battle That Made Canada

I have recently launched http://www.fenians.org and http://www.ridgewaybattle.ca dedicated to the Fenian Invasion of Canada 1866 and the Battle of Ridgeway.

I maintain a website on the history of the Toronto Police: http://www.russianbooks.org/crime/cp0.htm

I've written two true-crime history books published by Penguin-Berkley -- Serial Killers: The Method and Madness of Monsters and Female Serial Killers:  How and Why Women Become Monsters. See: http://www.petervronsky.com  I also wrote and directed a feature length documentary about underground culture in the last year of the Soviet regime:  Mondo Moscow:  The Art & Magic of Not Being There (1991) and numerous one-hour and thirty-minute television documentaries and specials.

I was the first person to have interviewed Russian witnesses in 1991-1992 to Lee Harvey Oswald's journey to the Soviet Union in 1959-1962 -- and I mean the first -- not even the KGB had interviewed some of these witnesses! I run a website about that at: http://www.russianbooks.org/oswald-in-russia.htm

I am also interested in, among many other things, the siege of Montsegur in 1244 and have a website on that as well: http://www.russianbooks.org/montsegur.htm

My main site is: http://www.petervronsky.org