Mediaeval no-go zone,Victorian hell-hole,war-ravaged bomb site,21st century shining city,the most exciting area in one of the most exciting cities in the world - the East End has often been London's strange alter ego. Ed Glinert trawls through the strange stories,the crazed characters,the violent vignettes,the dried-up docks,the imaginative immigrants,the proud philanthropists to give a different history of the most misunderstood sector of the capital,from the Princes in the Tower to the Ratcliffe Highway murders; from Jack the Ripper to the Kray twins; the Jewish ghetto to Banglatown; Cable Street to Canary Wharf; Mahatma Gandhi to George Orwell.
Publisher: Emons Verlag GmbHISBN: 9783740807528Weight: 480 gDimensions: 205 x 135 mm
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