Buy this book on-line BIRTLEY**, JACK: : FREDDIE MILLS: His Life and Death. **LONDON.NEL,1977. ISBN 0450032108.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.VG++/VG+.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj.Glossy, laminated red+yellow background illustrated upper wrap with subject,colour portrait photograph and black letters,b/w contemporary sports photograph to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges - no nicks or tears present - no bumped corners.Top+fore-edges slightly aged/toned - as usual/normal; contents bright,tight and clean with minimal page-edge browning.Clean,black paper-covered boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and near immaculate plain white endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,9-206pp [paginated] includes half-title+title pages,a contents list,author's introduction,10 chapters, 8pp b/w contemporary photographs between pp64/5 and pp144/5 respectively,and an index.
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This is the first full biography of Freddie Mills,the former British,European,Empire and world light-heavyweight champion,who died tragically in 1965,apparently having committed suicide.
Few people,however,accept that a man of Mills's character and immense courage could have ended his own life,and the popular belief among his friends and thousands of fans and admirers is that he was murdered by gangsters for refusing to pay protection money for his London nightclub.
The author,Jack Birtley,has painstakingly
researched into Mills's life to unravel the mystery surrounding this much-loved sportsman - a man who made more than £100,000 during his boxing career,but who died with little more than £300 in the bank.Where did this money go? Was Mills murdered,or had mounting pressures - including a secret love affair - forced him to shoot himself?
The author has come up with a verdict which will invite the public at large to take a closer look at a man who became a living legend.[Author also wrote The Tragedy of Randolph Turpin,his first book.]
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