A history of London and the people who made it. The thieves, charlatans, seers, architects, revolutionaries, poets, artists, sportsmen, soldiers, sailors, politicians, inventors and entrepreneurs who built the East End of London. Pen pictures of Attlee, Captain Cook, Sir Walter Raleigh, Stalin, Gandhi, Lew Grade, Steve Marriott, Fu Manchu, Sylvia Pankhurst, Lionel Bart, The Tichborne Claimant, John Wesley, Terry Spinks, Joseph Conard and dozens more...
