True Crimes - Mafia by The Editors of Time-Life Books - 2003-10-31

Time Life Books, London, 2003. Reprint. Hardcover (Laminated Boards). Very Good Condition/Very Good. Illustrator: Photographic / Illustrations. Acknowledgements, bibliography, index and picture credits. The text is illustrated with copious back and white photographs, black-and-white illustrations and the very occasional colour photograph and illustration. Photographic laminated boards with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. Photographic dustwrapper, same image as for underlying boards, with white coloured titles to the front panel and backstrip. A history of the Sicilian secret societies, predominantly The Black Hand, and, how they are intrinsically twined within the society of Sicily, and how when immigrants left Sicily for America, they brought their secret societies with them and how they exploded into what is known as The Mafia / organised crime. At the rear of the book there is a section dealing with major players in the Mafia in the early and middle part of the… Read More

Hardcover. Fine.