Author: Alan Reeve
Title: Notes From a Waiting-Room: Anatomy of a Political Prisoner
Description: Heretic Books, London, 1983. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780946097098 22cm x 14cm. 203, [4] pages + advertisements. Illustrated wrappers. Reeve (born 1948) was sent to Broadmoor, a high security psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, at age 15 for murder. Inside Broadmoor he studied, gaining a degree in sociology and became focussed on radical politics, lobbying for gay liberation and prisoner right. During this time he also strangled a fellow patient to death. After 17 years of imprisonment he escaped and remained at large for one year before being arrested in the Netherlands following a gun fight during which he killed a policeman. This autobiography tells of his childhood, time in Broadmoor, his escape, up to his time in Amsterdam with an appendix containing details of the gun fight. Foxing to top edge, minor elsewhere Previous owner's signature on rear advertisements. Shipped Weight: .27 kilos. ISBN: 0946097097. ISBN/EAN: 9780946097098.
Keywords: BZDB407 Broadmoor Special Hospital Biography & Autobiography; England; ISBN: 0946097097 EAN: 9780946097098 Alan Reeve Notes From a Waiting-Room: Anatomy of a Political Prisoner
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Title: Notes From a Waiting-Room: Anatomy of a Political Prisoner
Description: Heretic Books, London, 1983. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780946097098 22cm x 14cm. 203, [4] pages + advertisements. Illustrated wrappers. Reeve (born 1948) was sent to Broadmoor, a high security psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, at age 15 for murder. Inside Broadmoor he studied, gaining a degree in sociology and became focussed on radical politics, lobbying for gay liberation and prisoner right. During this time he also strangled a fellow patient to death. After 17 years of imprisonment he escaped and remained at large for one year before being arrested in the Netherlands following a gun fight during which he killed a policeman. This autobiography tells of his childhood, time in Broadmoor, his escape, up to his time in Amsterdam with an appendix containing details of the gun fight. Foxing to top edge, minor elsewhere Previous owner's signature on rear advertisements. Shipped Weight: .27 kilos. ISBN: 0946097097. ISBN/EAN: 9780946097098.
Keywords: BZDB407 Broadmoor Special Hospital Biography & Autobiography; England; ISBN: 0946097097 EAN: 9780946097098 Alan Reeve Notes From a Waiting-Room: Anatomy of a Political Prisoner
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- Book number: 0011196
- Book number: 0011196
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