Download or read book The London Compendium written by Ed Glinert and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2012 with total page 1005 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The streets of London resonate with secret stories, from East End lore to Cold War espionage, from tales of riots, rakes, brothyels, anarachy and grisly murders, to Rolling Stones gigs, ganag-land drinking dens, [George] Orwell's Fitrovia, and [Vladimir Ilyich] Lenin's haunts. ..."--Back cover.