{"product_id":"9781908476647","title":"Blackshirts in Geordieland","description":"\u003cp\u003eNo region of Great Britain suffered more in the ‘Hungry Thirties’ than Tyneside and the North-East. When the Labour and Coalition Governments failed to stem the tide of unemployment, Geordies began to look elsewhere - to the Communist Party, Independent Labour Party and not least the British Union of Fascists led by Sir Oswald Mosley.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the next eight years, these contenders for political power fought a bitter ideological battle on the streets of Newcastle, Sunderland, Gateshead, Durham, Stockton and elsewhere. The full story of this period of the North-East’s past has remained untold - something that local historian Gordon Stridiron has now remedied following a study of primary sources never before undertaken on the same scale.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMosley’s ‘Blackshirts in Geordieland’ emerge not as the political thugs and would-be Quislings of stereotypical image. Instead, the reader discovers a group of patriotic idealists - against communism, against capitalism and against war – who whether right or wrong had the courage to face hostility and physical attack to make their message heard: ‘The War on Want is the War we Want!”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Black House Publishing Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47039420694768,"sku":"9781908476647","price":22.16,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781908476647_p0.jpg?v=1763623288","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781908476647","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}