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True stories of gangsters

Author: Henry Brook
Publisher: London : Usborne, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : Juvenile audience : EnglishView all editions and formats
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From Al Capone's reign of terror in Chicago to the last stand of Ned Kelly in the Australian bush, most gangsters lived lives of cold, calculating violence, living hard and dying young. Learn about some of the most notorious in these eleven thrilling stories.
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Genre/Form: Juvenile literature
Material Type: Juvenile audience
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Henry Brook
ISBN: 0746058152 9780746058152 0794507220 9780794507220
OCLC Number: 56443099
Description: 157 p. ill., ports. ; 20 cm.
Contents: Ice-cold killers --
How they cracked Capone --
Die young and famous --
Desert dreamer --
Betrayed by the lady in red --
Dutchman meets Murder Inc. --
Nothing can be worth this --
Australian iron gang --
War with the world --
Luckiest gangster alive --
Gangster who beat "the Rock".
Responsibility: Henry Brook.

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Offering an approachable insight into key events of the past, this book contains true tales of the criminal underworld.  Read more...

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