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  • GANGLAND
    FRANCIS SELWYN
    On the evening of 2nd November 1952, a shot fired from a makeshift weapon on a warehouse roof in Croydon killed PC Sidney Miles. Next morning the newspaper headlines proclaimed a Chicago gun-battle in London, gangsters machine-gunning armed police over the rooftops. But the trial of Bentley and Craig affronted common sense and alienated a generation raised in the post-war subur...

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  • ROTTEN TO THE CORE?
    FRANCIS SELWYN
    The Second World War created heroes and scoundrels in good measure. Few men shifted from role to role with the insolent ease of Neville Heath. Exchanging one alias for another, he was at various times Lord ‘Jimmy’ Dudley, Captain Bruce Lockhart, ‘The Cambridge Blue’, Group-Captain Rupert Brooke, and Lieutenant-Colonel James Rupert Cadogan Armstrong, DFC, AFC. In reality Neville...

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  • HITLER'S ENGLISHMAN
    FRANCIS SELWYN
    ‘Lord Haw-Haw’ (William Joyce) was Hitler’s secret weapon of the airwaves. Nightly through the Second World War Joyce’s nasal tones were transmitted to a delighted if sceptical audience. He had a large and enthusiastic following, who looked upon his catchphrase ‘Jairmany calling’ as the promise of comic relief as sure as that provided by Tommy Handley and the much-loved radio p...

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