City of Gangs: Glasgow and the Rise of the British Gangster
**Includes fascinating stories about Billy Fullerton, leader of the Billy Boys, featured in the latest series of BBC's Peaky Blinders**'A new type of criminal is in our midst - a dangerous, ruthless, well-armed man, who will stick at nothing, not even murder. He is introducing into this country the gangster methods of Chicago and New York... Trade depression has thrown into unemployment thousands of unskilled youths who have nothing to do but lounge about the street corners of our slums in gangs.' John Bull weekly newspaper, 1932.During the 1920s and 1930s, Glasgow gained an unenviable and enduring notoriety as Britain's gang city - the 'Scot…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4447-3978-7
- EAN: 9781444739787
- Produktnummer: 22601922
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 464 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'036 KB
- Abbildungen: 2 x 8pp b&w picture section
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Andrew Davies
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