Dark City

Informationen zum Autor An award-winning newspaper reporter! Simon Read is the author of four other works of nonfiction! including In the Dark: The True Story of the Blackout Ripper (published as The Blackout Murders in the United Kingdom) and The Killing Skies: RAF Bomber Command at War. He has written two other books on historic crimes: On the House and the soon-to-be-released War of Words. His paternal grandfather! Percival "Percy" Read! was a detective-inspector with the Metropolitan Police during the war and an investigator on the Chicago Joe/Karl Hulten and Rillington Place murder cases. A native Briton! Simon Read currently lives and works in the United States. Klappentext Shows there was more to wartime London than stiff upper-lips and rousing choruses of 'Roll out the Barrel'! that there was crime! and plenty of it! in the time of Blackouts and the Blitz. All is chronicled here in this lively and accessible history.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Simon Read
• Editore: Ian Allan Ltd.
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 21.10.2010
• EAN: 9780711034433
• ISBN: 978-0-7110-3443-3
• Pagine: 288
• Categoria: Guide e manuali > Veicoli, aerei , imbarcazioni, viaggi aerospaziali > Auto, moto, scooter