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Break down these bars

Jim Edwards

198796 pagesabout 1–2 hours
1987
first published
  • 1987Penguin · 96 pages · ENGISBN 9780140092257

This is the story of Jim Edwards, who was six weeks on the run and was sentenced to two years jail with hard labour for allegedly inflaming the Queen Street 'riots' of 1932. It tells of the events of that dramatic night, of the great marches of the unemployed, of the Depression 'slave camps' where man lost self-respect. It is the story of a man whose spirit police batons could not quell, whose sense of humour made light of jail and of being an outlaw on the run ..."--Back cover.

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