Inside Out: The True Story of the Simmonds-Newcombe Gaol Escape by Les Newcombe

Book Description

Secondhand. Fair to good condition. Significant wear to book corners and edges. Foxing to foredges, half-title and title page. Scratch to front cover near top right corner, now protected with book tape. The book is completed, but the binding has been repaired.

On 9 October 1959, Kevin Simmonds and Les Newcombe broke out of Long Bay Gaol. In so doing, they set in train one of the most incredible manhunts in Australian history. A media event that aroused public feeling to a fever pitch. The death of a prison warder, the dogged determination of police and the often ingenious desperation of the escapees abruptly focused public attention, not just on the running men but also on the prison system from which they had sprung. - its brutality, its systematic denial of hope and humanity.

In this frank and hard-hitting book, Les Newcombe tells his story, a story of life in prison and out of it, as a free man, prisoner and escapee. (back cover)