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Condition: brand new format: paperback isbn: 9781509811427 publisher: pan macmillan overview: our story is the classic true-crime account of reggie and ronnie kray, london's most notorious gangland twins, told largely in their own words with veteran journalist fred dinenage. Compiled from a series of prison interviews, this pan macmillan paperback traces the krays' rise from east end street kids to feared, feted underworld bosses, their strange brush with celebrity through david bailey's photography and television appearances, and the notorious 1969 trial that finally ended their decade-long reign over london's criminal underworld. A gripping, first-person slice of british social and criminal history. About the book: our story strips away decades of myth and tabloid legend to let reginald and ronald kray set the record straight, in a narrative compiled by broadcaster fred dinenage from interviews conducted behind prison walls. The result is a frank account of how two brothers from bethnal green built a criminal empire dominating london's underworld for more than a decade. Readers follow the twins from early rackets through the clubs, protection rackets, and violent rivalries that cemented their power, up to the murders of george cornell and jack the hat mcvitie that brought them down. The book captures the contradiction at the heart of the krays' fame: while running one of britain's most feared gangs, they were courted by celebrities, photographed by david bail...
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