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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone Hardcover - 2004

by William J. Helmer; Arthur J. Bilek


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During Prohibition, Chicago's Beer Wars turned the city into a battleground, secured its reputation as gangster capital of the world, and laid the foundation for nationally organised crime. Bootlegger bloodshed was greater there than anywhere else. The machine-gun murders of seven men on the morning of February 14, 1929, by killers dressed as cops became the gangland crime of the century. Since then it has been featured in countless histories, biographies, movies, and television specials. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, however, is the first book-length treatment of the subject. Unlike other accounts, it challenges the commonly held assumption that Al Capone decreed the slayings to gain supremacy in the Chicago underworld. The authors assert the deed was a case of bad timing and poor judgement by a secret crew from St. Louis known to Capone's mostly Italian mob as the American boys.

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THE TEMPERATURE HOVERED AROUND EIGHTEEN degrees and an icy wind was keeping the pavement slippery with blowing snow as Elmer Lewis wrestled his Nelson-LeMoon delivery van through the Thursday morning traffic on Chicago's Near North Side.

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  • Title The St. Valentine's Day Massacre The Untold Story of the Gangland Bloodbath That Brought Down Al Capone
  • Author William J. Helmer; Arthur J. Bilek
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Cumberland House Publishing, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
  • Date January 2004
  • ISBN 9781581823295
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