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Gangland Bosses: The Lives of Jack Spot and Billy Hill by Gerry Parker, James Morton, Jerry Parker (Paperback, 2005)
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In August 1955 two men fought on the corner of Frith Street and Old Compton Street, Soho. From the dreadful injuries they inflicted on each other it easily could have been a hanging matter, but ironically it became known as 'The Fight that Never Was'. It was, however, to have enormous repercussions in the battle for control of Soho and its clubs and for the bookmakers' pitches on the racecourses. It also led to the inexorable rise of the Kray twins. One of the men fighting was Jack Spot, the self-proclaimed defender of the Jewish community against Fascism. The other was the half Italian Albert Dimes, the right hand man of Spot's one-time friend and later nemesis Billy Hill, rightly described as the nearest Britain has ever had to a mastermind. Meticulously researched, including interviews with the survivors of the era, this is the story of the rise and fall of Spot from an East End background and Hill from a criminal family in Holborn, as well as that of their spiritual mentor Darby Sabini, the King of the Racecourses in the 1920s and 1930s and his successors Alf and Harry White.Product Identifiers
PublisherLittle, Brown Book Group
ISBN-139780751533200
eBay Product ID (ePID)87877821
Product Key Features
Book TitleGangland Bosses: the Lives of Jack Spot and Billy Hill
AuthorGerry Parker, James Morton, Jerry Parker
FormatPaperback
LanguageEnglish
TopicTrue Crime
Publication Year2005
GenreBiographies & True Stories
Number of Pages384 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height178mm
Item Width111mm
Item Weight210g
Additional Product Features
Title_AuthorJames Morton, Jerry Parker, Gerry Parker
Country/Region of ManufactureUnited Kingdom
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