City of Gangs

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NON-FICTION
UK & Comm Hodder and Stoughton (Ed. Rupert Lancaster)
2013

By Andrew Davies Film Rights

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Andrew Davies, author of the acclaimed Gangs of Manchester, paints a information
portrait of Britain's gangland between the wars - a period when Glasgow Audio Rights
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Drawing on fifteen years of original research Andrew Davies shows how Alice Lutyens.
Glasgow was Britain in a microcosm. Racked by social division during the
1920s and 1930s, many commentators spoke openly of 'Two Nations',
contrasting the boom cities of England's South with the decaying industrial
heartlands of the North and Scotland. New forms of crime emerged that
appeared to owe much to American gangster films. Each of Britain's major
cities was plagued by gangs, comprised mainly of the young unemployed
but said to be orchestrated by criminal masterminds - aspiring Al Capones.
One city above all others came to symbolise the arrival of American crime
methods in Britain.

The dramatic story of Glasgow -Britain's 'gang city' - provides a new window
onto the most turbulent period in modern British history.

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