Disaster in Coal Town 1923

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  • Published 20130903
  • ISBN: 9781922079985
  • Extent: 288pp
  • Paperback (234 x 153mm), eBook

‘AN HOUR EARLIER and it might have been four hundred men.’

‘Does that make it any less filthy or cruel?’

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