1976 The Year That Scorched – Christopher Sandford

For the Parish family Publisher’s Note: The following text contains quotes that use racist and insensitive language representative of the time depicted. There are also graphic descriptions of violence. Readers should proceed at their own discretion. First published 2025 The History Press 97 St George’s Place, Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, GL50 3QB www.thehistorypress.co.uk © Christopher Sandford, 2025 The right of Christopher Sandford to be identified as the Author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

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ISBN 978 1 80399 958 6 Typesetting and origination by The History Press Printed and bound in Great Britain by TJ Books, Padstow, Cornwall eBook converted by Geethik Technologies The History Press proudly supports www.treesforlife.org.uk EU Authorised Representative: Easy Access System Europe Mustamäe tee 50, 10621 Tallinn, Estonia [email protected] 1kitap1.com/en Contents Acknowledgements Introduction: Blood on the Tracks I. Winter II. Spring III. Summer IV. Autumn Sources and Chapter Notes Select Bibliography 1kitap1.com/en ‘I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter.’

The Letters of Junius, ‘Dedication to the English Nation’ (1769) ‘The question is not yet settled whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence – whether all that is profound does not spring from disease of thought.’ Edgar Allan Poe, Eleonora (1842) ‘Anarchy in the UK’ The Sex Pistols (1976) 1kitap1.com/en Acknowledgements A harsh critic, reviewing my recent 1964: The Year the Swinging Sixties Began, complained that I appeared to have only ‘slightly changed’ the book’s structure (as opposed to its contents) from an earlier biography I wrote of the international conman Victor Lustig.

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