The Kelly Gang Unmasked

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publisher Place: Melbourne
Publisher Year: 2012
Edition: First Edition

Description: 248 pages. Book is in Very good condition throughout. The only exceptions are a few light age markings on the page edges and small marks to cover.

Publishers Description: Ned Kelly was a dangerous man to be around. At Glenrowan, before the siege began, he was fiddling with a confiscated revolver when it accidentally discharged, wounding a hostage in the eye. That individual died months later in wretched circumstances. The organised crime network of stock theft, of which the Kelly Gang was a major part, inspired community fear. But Neds extended family also included violent individuals, such as the Quinn and Lloyd menfolk. Two brothers-in-law seriously injured a Senior Constable with a stirrup iron, one of them shouting like a madman. An uncle avenged himself on a neighbour by hacking his horse to death with an axe. Crazed, violent men like these created a general climate of terror in north-east Victoria. This controversial book re-examines the story of the Kelly Gang in fascinating detail and with many new insights. The mythology created by pro-Kelly writers is critically explored, unravelled, and often found wanting. Many missing official documents have been identified for the first time. A pattern of extreme hostility against police emerges both before and after the Stringybark police murders.

ISBN: 9780195519662