City of Gangs
**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: 978-1-4447-3979-4
- EAN: 9781444739794
- Produktnummer: 15637858
- Verlag: Hodder & Stoughton
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 450 S.
- Masse: H20.0 cm x B13.1 cm x D3.5 cm 336 g
- Gewicht: 336
Über den Autor
Andrew Davies is a Senior Lecturer in Modern British History at the University of Liverpool. He specialises in the history of crime in modern Britain and has published and broadcast widely on gangs, crime and policing. His previous book The Gangs of Manchester was published in 2008.For more information and background on this book, visit www.glasgowgangs.com.
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