The East End

A highly readable social history of the East End from 1930s to the present day told through the testimony of those who lived through the waves of immigration the rise of fascism the decline of the docks the devastation of the second world war and the changes these brought about. From Oswald Mosley's Blackshirts to the Krays' reign of terror from backstreet poverty to the modern opulence of Canary Wharf this is a chronicle of a changing community that has always held a special place in our national myth.