A Devilish Kind of Courage: Anarchists, Aliens and the Siege of Sidney Street

by Andrew Whitehead

A thrilling account of the 1911 Siege of Sidney Street--when a young Winston Churchill allowed two immigrant revolutionaries to burn to death in London's East End.

On January 3, 1911, police discovered Latvian revolutionaries on the lam in London's East End. A six-hour gunfight ensued until fire consumed the building where the radicals had taken refuge. When a not-yet-prime-minister Winston Churchill arrived at the scene, he ordered...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1789148448
• ISBN13: 9781789148442
• Release Date: May 2024
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 304 Pages