pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
pickabook books with huge discounts for everyone
Visit our new collection website www.collectionsforschool.co.uk
     
Email: Subscribe to news & offers:
Need assistance? Log In/Register


Item Details
Title: WE ARE NOT MANSLAUGHTERERS
By: Martin Knight
Format: Hardback

List price: £12.99


We believe that this item is permanently unavailable, and so we cannot source it.

ISBN 10: 1907183140
ISBN 13: 9781907183140
Publisher: TONTO BOOKS
Pub. date: 1 September, 2010
Pages: 304
Synopsis: Derby Day 1919 was a day of celebration, it being the first Derby Stakes to be run in Epsom since the First World War. The return of the world's most famous horse race to its rightful home was a sure sign that life was returning to normal. With the card finished and Grand Parade the 33-1 victor, the masses streamed home and the town's pavements and pubs were left once again in peace. Yet only 15 days later 12 Epsom policemen found themselves defending their quiet station against a 400-strong rioting mob in a vicious hour-long battle. By the end many were injured and the dependable Sergeant Thomas Green lay dead from vicious blow with a bar torn from the station's own police cell. However, the rioters were not drunken revellers or incensed locals: they were Canadian soldiers, many of whom had seen action in France and Belgium, bent on releasing their comrades, arrested earlier in the evening following a minor disturbance in one of the town's pubs. The murder of a gallant policeman was as momentous an event then as it would be now. Yet the media coverage was relatively subdued, public outrage contained and the path to justice tightly managed. No indictment for murder was ever made.Charges against five Canadians were reduced from manslaughter to riotous assembly and the defendants had been arrested, tried, sentenced, imprisoned, released and sent home before the year was out. This book traces the events of 17 June 1919 and explores the reasons why the Government was so keen not to allow the case to become a cause celebre. Future King Edward VIII was scheduled to tour the colonies, including Canada, to thank them for their extraordinary sacrifices in World War One. To do this while Canadian soldiers were being hung in prisons across Britain did not bear contemplation. Former, future and incumbent Prime Ministers Lord Rosebery, Winston Churchill and David Lloyd-George are among the historical figures who were faced with the murder's potential fall-out; the worst-case scenario being the disintegration of the British Empire. Justice was not done for Sgt Green, and even his murderer concurred with this.Subsequent twists and turns include the two daughters of Sgt Green emigrating to Canada, a confession to the murder ten years later and a backdrop of venereal disease, as well as a new strand to the story that has never been publicly connected, all of which explains even more why the authorities were so keen to bury this case.
Illustrations: 16 pages colour
Publication: UK
Imprint: Tonto Books
Returns: Non-returnable
Some other items by this author:
BARRY DESMOND IS A WANKER
BARRY DESMOND IS A WANKER (PB)
BATTERSEA GIRL
BATTERSEA GIRL (AUD)
BATTERSEA GIRL (CD)
BATTERSEA GIRL (PB)
BONNIE PRINCE (PB)
BROKEN WAFERS
COMMON PEOPLE
COMMON PEOPLE (PB)
CUSHTY
EASTSIDE STORY: WESTFIELD STRATFORD CITY (PB)
GRASS
GRASS (HB)
GRASS (PB)
GYPSY JOE
GYPSY JOE (HB)
HOOLIFAN
HOOLIFAN (PB)
I RAN WITH THE GANG
I RAN WITH THE GANG (HB)
JUSTICE FOR JOAN (PB)
JUSTICE KILLER
LONDON CALLING (PB)
ON THE COBBLES
ON THE COBBLES (HB)
ON THE COBBLES (PB)
OSSIE
OSSIE (HB)
OSSIE (PB)
REAL MACKAY (PB)
THE BONNIE PRINCECHARLIE COOKE - MY FOOTBALL LIFE (PB)
THE GUIDE TO EXPORT FINANCE (HB)
THE INFLUENZA PANDEMIC OF 1918-1919 IN THE TOWNS OF THE WEST RIDING AND YORK (PB)
THE LIFE AND TIMES OF GEORGE FRANKUM 1763-1830 (PB)
THE NAUGHTY NINETIES
THE NAUGHTY NINETIES (PB)
THE REAL MACKAY (HB)
THE SPECIAL ONES
THE SPECIAL ONES (HB)
THE WORKING MAN'S BALLET (PB)
THERE AIN'T NO JUSTICE (HB)
WE ARE NOT MANSLAUGHTERERS

TOP SELLERS IN THIS CATEGORY
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
By: Truman Capote
Penguin Books Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
Solitary Fitness (Paperback)
By: Charles Bronson, Stephen Richards
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Our Price : £6.56
more details
The Crime Book (Hardback)
By: DK, Peter James (Foreword), Peter James (Foreword)
Dorling Kindersley Ltd
Our Price : £14.59
more details
The Red Parts (Paperback)
By: Maggie Nelson
Vintage Publishing
Our Price : £8.02
more details
Talking with Psychopaths (Paperback)
By: Christopher Berry-Dee
John Blake Publishing Ltd
Our Price : £7.29
more details
BROWSE FOR BOOKS IN RELATED CATEGORIES
 FICTION
 true stories
 true crime


Information provided by www.pickabook.co.uk
SHOPPING BASKET
  
Your basket is empty
  Total Items: 0
 

NEW
Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr
By: SARA KHAN
A celebratory, inclusive and educational exploration of Ramadan and Eid al-Fitr for both children that celebrate and children who want to understand and appreciate their peers who do.
add to basket

Learning
That''s My Story!: Drama for Confidence, Communication and C...
By: ADAM POWER-ANNAND
The ability to communicate is an essential life skill for all children, underpinning their confidence, personal and social wellbeing, and sense of self.
add to basket