The London Compendium: A Street-By-Street Exploration of the Hidden Metropolis

The London Compendium: A Street-By-Street Exploration of the Hidden Metropolis by Glinert, Ed. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780141012131.

The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, brothers, anarchy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, gangland drinking dens, Orwells Fitzrovia and Lenins haunts. Ed Glinert has walked the city from Limehouse to Lambeth, Whitehall to Whitechapel, unravelling its mysteries along the way. This is London as you have never seen it before.