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Billy Hill: Godfather of London - The Unparalleled Saga of Britain's Most Powerful Post-War Crime Boss

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1782198784
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (821 download)

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Download or read book Billy Hill: Godfather of London - The Unparalleled Saga of Britain's Most Powerful Post-War Crime Boss written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There will never be another Billy Hill - Reggie Kray. Bill had a great brain. There's no two ways about it - Frankie Fraser. I made Billy Hill. Then he got over the top of me. I should have shot Billy Hill. I really should. I'd have got ten years for it but it would have made me happy and I'd be out now - laughing - Jack Spot. I have no doubt that during his career Hill had some very senior officers in his pocket - Leonard 'Nipper' Read, legendary Scotland Yard detective. Billy Hill was Britain's first celebrity gangster. Born in London's impoverished Seven Dials, by the early 1950's he had control of the city's gambling rackets and masterminded a heist that set the template for the Great Train Robbery. He ruled the roost in the bloody era when the underworld's choice of weapon was the open razor. His violent clashes with onetime ally turned enemy Jack Spot became the stuff of legend, as Hill and his henchmen left the streets of Soho running red. But Hill was astute enough to choose his moment to get out, abdicating in favour of his gun-toting young protégés, the Kray twins . . . In this fast-moving biography, Wensley Clarkson charts the life of the only post-war British villain to truly make crime pay.

Billy "the Hill" and the Jump Hook

Author : Billy McGill
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 0803249535
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Billy "the Hill" and the Jump Hook written by Billy McGill and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2013-11-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up on the hardscrabble streets of LA in the late 1950s, Billy McGill stood out. At eleven he was dunking. At fifteen he was playing in pickup games against Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain—and holding his own, in part because he invented the jump hook shot, which no one could defend. How he went from college phenom, well on his way to becoming the greatest player Los Angeles ever produced, to sleeping in abandoned houses and washing up in a Laundromat sink is the story Billy “the Hill” McGill recounts here. The first African American to play basketball for the University of Utah and the highest scoring big man in NCAA history, McGill was the first pick of the 1962 NBA draft. But the injury that would undo him—a knee injury in his junior year of high school—had already occurred, and it would worsen year after year until his career faded away. From college star (whose scoring record is still unbroken) to troubled player, bouncing around the NBA and the ABA, McGill takes us from the heights to his precipitous fall—and the slow recovery of a life he had never prepared for. A cautionary tale, written with a candor and authenticity rarely seen in pro athletes, his book is also the incredible story of one of the greatest unknown basketball players of all time.

Hill-Billy

Author : Rose Wilder Lane
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Hill-Billy written by Rose Wilder Lane and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Britain's Underworld

Author : Billy Hill
Publisher : Billy Hill Family
ISBN 13 : 9780956095800
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Britain's Underworld written by Billy Hill and published by Billy Hill Family. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Hill writes about an extraordinary life of crime and punishment and his rise to the top of Britain's gangland. This book details Billy's sensational heists in the 1950s, for which no one was ever convicted. It's an entertaining read, giving the reader insight into what made Billy tick.

Gangland Bosses

Author : James Morton
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1405515619
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (55 download)

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Download or read book Gangland Bosses written by James Morton and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In August 1955 two men fought on the corner of Frith Street and Old Compton Street, Soho. From the dreadful injuries they inflicted on each other it easily could have been a hanging matter, but ironically it became known as 'The Fight that Never Was'. It was, however, to have enormous repercussions in the battle for control of Soho and its clubs and for the bookmakers' pitches on the racecourses. It also led to the inexorable rise of the Kray twins. One of the men fighting was Jack Spot, the self-proclaimed defender of the Jewish community against Fascism. The other was the half Italian Albert Dimes, the right hand man of Spot's one-time friend and later nemesis Billy Hill, rightly described as the nearest Britain has ever had to a mastermind. Meticulously researched, including interviews with the survivors of the era, this is the story of the rise and fall of Spot from an East End background and Hill from a criminal family in Holborn, as well as that of their spiritual mentor Darby Sabini, the King of the Racecourses in the 1920s and 1930s and his successors Alf and Harry White.

Billy Hill Gyp and Me

Author : Justin Hill
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956095817
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (958 download)

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Download or read book Billy Hill Gyp and Me written by Justin Hill and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the memoir of Billy and Gyp Hill - Britain's most successful criminal couple - and Justin, their only child. Billy was the Boss of Britain's underworld. He introduced 'project' crime to Britain and got clean away with the 1952 Eastcastle Street robbery even though the authorities knew that he did it. In 1956, he was at the centre of a phone tapping scandal that led to a Privy Council enquiry. When Billy published his memoir, the papers said there had been nothing like it since the days of Al Capone.

Hillbilly Elegy

Author : J. D. Vance
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062872257
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Hillbilly Elegy written by J. D. Vance and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER IS NOW A MAJOR-MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY RON HOWARD AND STARRING AMY ADAMS, GLENN CLOSE, AND GABRIEL BASSO "You will not read a more important book about America this year."—The Economist "A riveting book."—The Wall Street Journal "Essential reading."—David Brooks, New York Times Hillbilly Elegy is a passionate and personal analysis of a culture in crisis—that of white working-class Americans. The disintegration of this group, a process that has been slowly occurring now for more than forty years, has been reported with growing frequency and alarm, but has never before been written about as searingly from the inside. J. D. Vance tells the true story of what a social, regional, and class decline feels like when you were born with it hung around your neck. The Vance family story begins hopefully in postwar America. J. D.’s grandparents were “dirt poor and in love,” and moved north from Kentucky’s Appalachia region to Ohio in the hopes of escaping the dreadful poverty around them. They raised a middle-class family, and eventually one of their grandchildren would graduate from Yale Law School, a conventional marker of success in achieving generational upward mobility. But as the family saga of Hillbilly Elegy plays out, we learn that J.D.'s grandparents, aunt, uncle, sister, and, most of all, his mother struggled profoundly with the demands of their new middle-class life, never fully escaping the legacy of abuse, alcoholism, poverty, and trauma so characteristic of their part of America. With piercing honesty, Vance shows how he himself still carries around the demons of his chaotic family history. A deeply moving memoir, with its share of humor and vividly colorful figures, Hillbilly Elegy is the story of how upward mobility really feels. And it is an urgent and troubling meditation on the loss of the American dream for a large segment of this country.

Billy Goat Hill

Author : Mark Stanleigh Morris
Publisher : Multnomah
ISBN 13 : 0307563413
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Billy Goat Hill written by Mark Stanleigh Morris and published by Multnomah. This book was released on 2009-05-20 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1958. Eisenhower is in the White House, Elvis is in the army, and eight-year-old Wade Parker is thrilled that Duke Snider and the Dodgers have moved west from Brooklyn. Yet all is not well in the Parker household. On the darkest day of his young life, Wade plunges into the midst of an unimaginable crisis. Worse yet, his younger brother witnessed what happened, and he can’t keep a secret for a truckload of Abba-Zabbas. With an abundance of brotherly love and the unseen grace of God, the brothers venture alone on dangerous exploits around northeast Los Angeles. A powerfully imaginative coming-of-age story seasoned with hooligan humor, Billy Goat Hill is an inspiring account of a young man’s quest for God. Culminating with a startling climax, the reader is embraced by the central theme of forgiveness and salvation that can only come from a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. Dorothy’s cyclone had nothin’ on Scar. Los Angeles , 1958. Elvis is in the army. Eisenhower’s in the White House. And eight-year-old Wade Parker heads out for Billy Goat Hill to run the Crippler in the dark—just like Gooey dared him to. But Wade and his kid brother, Luke, run into Scar, the most fearsome character they’ve ever had the misfortune to meet at four in the morning. They won’t realize it for years to come, but knowing him will change their lives forever. Wade’s family is already disintegrating over the loss of a child. If there’s no place like home, what happens when home is falling apart? Wade begins a decades-long journey, searching for answers. But when your life has been shaped by loss, murder, alcoholism, and betrayal, how do you find forgiveness? Story Behind the Book “I wrote this novel to fulfill God’s plan for my gift...to glorify Him and evangelize the lost. Originally written before I gave my life to the Lord, I now realize how much God, through the writing, was working in my life. There is much of my own life story, some actual events, and a lot of metaphorical reflection, embodied in the fictional character of Wade Parker. The writing was deeply cathartic, and not long after completing the original version of this novel, I surrendered my heart to Jesus. By God’s grace I am now directed to write in His service.”

The Stairs on Billy Buck Hill

Author : Steve Orebaugh
Publisher : Milford House Press
ISBN 13 : 9781620068663
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (686 download)

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Download or read book The Stairs on Billy Buck Hill written by Steve Orebaugh and published by Milford House Press. This book was released on 2021-12-29 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A talented, devoted anesthesiologist, with a coveted academic position. A lovely, accomplished financial analyst with a glamorous social life, a high-rise apartment, and a dirty little secret. A chance encounter, a night of passion, a confessed preference for opioids...In this sordid tale of infatuation, temptation, and intoxication, Dr. Kurt McCain rises to a pinnacle of popularity and self-regard that he could not previously have imagined, only to realize that his pursuit of drug-induced euphoria has cost him nearly everything that he holds dear. His position, his profession, and his relationships with those he loves are destroyed, and the young physician finds himself at the lowest point of his life, disconsolate and alone. He must somehow summon all of his energies to overcome a dependence on opioids while making a desperate attempt at the restoration of his practice, and for redemption in the eyes of those who care for him. The nation is riven by a devastating epidemic that continues even as the COVID epidemic fades- opioids are killing Americans in unprecedented numbers. While physicians are often implicated among the many causes of this scourge, little attention is paid to the potential for doctors and nurses to become addicts themselves. Anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists, who administer opioids with great regularity, are among the most susceptible providers. The Stairs On Billy Buck Hill, a 100,000-word literary novel, relates one physician's travails as he progresses from the carefully controlled, recreational use of opioid pills, to the brazen theft of fentanyl from his patients in the operating room, a treacherous descent that leads to the destruction of his career, his social standing, and very nearly himself.

The Sledding Hill

Author : Chris Crutcher
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061968498
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)

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Download or read book The Sledding Hill written by Chris Crutcher and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-09-22 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Bartholomew has an audacious soul, and he knows it. Why? Because it's all he has left. He's dead. Eddie Proffit has an equally audacious soul, but he doesn't know it. He's still alive. These days, Billy and Eddie meet on the sledding hill, where they used to spend countless hours -- until Billy kicked a stack of Sheetrock over on himself, breaking his neck and effectively hitting tilt on his Earthgame. The two were inseparable friends. They still are. And Billy is not about to let a little thing like death stop him from hanging in there with Eddie in his epic struggle to get his life back on track.

The Hustlers

Author : Douglas Thompson
Publisher : Pan Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0330538780
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book The Hustlers written by Douglas Thompson and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2012-06-28 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invitations to John Aspinall and John Burke's illegal gambling parties were the most sought after in 1950s London - only the wealthy and well-connected were allowed past their door. When the police finally arrested them, Aspinall and Burke challenged the law - and won. As a result gambling was legalised. Which interested crime boss Billy Hill and his lieutenant Bobby McKew, because suddenly clubs sprang up everywhere and Billy had a foolproof way of fixing the cards. He also had his eye on the ultimate prize, Aspinall's exclusive new club, The Clermont... Revealing for the first time how Aspinall and Hill plotted to steal a fortune, based on testimony from Burke and McKew, The Hustlers is a riotous journey back to 50s and 60s London. With a cast of characters that ranges from safecracker Eddie Chapman to the reckless Earl of Derby, from croupier Louis the Rat to unlucky Lord Lucan, it vividly recreates the exploits of the gamblers and gangsters whose lives collided in the clubs and pubs of Mayfair. 'a fascinating glimpse into a bygone world . . . when chemmy parties took London by storm and toffs were often found to be rubbing shoulders with gangsters' Daily Express

String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont

Author : Bob Carlin
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 078648036X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book String Bands in the North Carolina Piedmont written by Bob Carlin and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-12-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: String band music is most commonly associated with the mountains of North Carolina and other rural areas of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian mountains, but it was just as abundant in Piedmont region of North Carolina, albeit with different influences and stylistic conventions. This work focuses exclusively on the history and culture of the area, the music's development and the changes within traditional communities of the Piedmont. It begins with a discussion of the settlement of the Piedmont in the mid-1700s and early references to secular folk music, including the attitudes the various ethnic and religious groups had on music and dance, the introduction of the fiddle and the banjo, and outside influences such as minstrel shows, Hawaiian music and classical banjo. It then goes on to cover African-Americans and string band music; the societal functions of square dances held at private homes and community centers; the ways in which musicians learned to play the music and bought their instruments; fiddler's conventions and their history as community fundraisers; the recording industry and Piedmont musicians who cut recordings, including Ernest Thompson and the North Carolina Cooper Boys; Bascom Lamar Lunsford and the Carolina Folk Festival; the influence of live radio stations, including WPTF in Raleigh, WGWR in Asheboro, WSJS in Winston-Salem, WBIG in Greensboro and WBT in Charlotte; the first generation of locally-bred country entertainers, including Charlie Monroe's Kentucky Partners, Gurney Thomas and Glenn Thompson; and bluegrass and musical change following World War II.

Herd Register

Author : American Jersey Cattle Club
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Herd Register written by American Jersey Cattle Club and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Billy Hill

Author : Robert Ray Moon
Publisher : Booktango
ISBN 13 : 1468940848
Total Pages : 55 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (689 download)

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Download or read book Billy Hill written by Robert Ray Moon and published by Booktango. This book was released on 2013-11-13 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billy Hill Synopsis The setting is in the early 1940s. Logan the flim flam man was busy taking orders selling everything from magazines to new Buicks; accepting money up front and not delivering. Therefore each town needed a quick get away. He recruited Billy Hill; remade him into "Ricardo," the smiling Romeo, to complete the scam. Billy amassed a fortune for his share when suddenly Logan caught a freight train out of town due to a problem with a farmer’s daughter. Billy decided to take his treasures home and become himself again. The story continues with romance and new adventures all of them honest.

The Gilded Edge

Author : Danny Miller
Publisher : Constable
ISBN 13 : 1780335555
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book The Gilded Edge written by Danny Miller and published by Constable. This book was released on 2012-05-17 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's the Swinging Sixties but not all barriers have come down - the aristocrats and financial power players still gather around the exclusive gaming tables of the Montcler Club in Berkeley Square while the rest slum it in the underground ska clubs and elicit drinking dens in Notting Hill. And it's against this background of London society and villainy that detective Vince Treadwell enters when investigating the seemingly unrelated murder of a young black woman in Notting Hill and blue-blooded Johnny Beresford in Belgravia. As Vince digs deeper he finds himself embroiled in a secret world of debauchery and corruption, where the underworld happily mixes with the aristocracy, and where no one remains an innocent victim. Praise for Kiss Me Quick: 'A thrilling read.' - Buzz Magazine 'Dark and involved.' - Daily Express Unmissable. - Best 'This unusual and atmospheric crime novel suggests that Danny Miller is a writer to watch.' - Good Book Guide '...one of those books that literally grabs you from page one.' - The Week

Gang Wars of London - How the Streets of the Capital Became a Battleground

Author : Wensley Clarkson
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784184993
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (841 download)

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Download or read book Gang Wars of London - How the Streets of the Capital Became a Battleground written by Wensley Clarkson and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gang Wars of London charts the development of organised crime in the capital since 1945, from the post-war street gangs to the drug barons, cyber criminals and terrorists that threaten our safety today.The underworld has thrived for more than half a century but it appears the capital has now entered its most deadly phrase, as vicious gangs from all over the globe are making this city their home. They will do anything to get what they want and challenge anyone who gets in their way: police, civilians or each other.Here, for the first time, is an up-to-date and in-depth account of London's current crime epidemic that threatens to destroy the very fabric of our capital city.

Billboard

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Billboard written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In its 114th year, Billboard remains the world's premier weekly music publication and a diverse digital, events, brand, content and data licensing platform. Billboard publishes the most trusted charts and offers unrivaled reporting about the latest music, video, gaming, media, digital and mobile entertainment issues and trends.