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Title information The Whitechapel Whirlwind The Jack Kid Berg Story By John Harding Key features • First-hand insight into a lost world of boxing • Features exclusive interviews with Jack Kid Berg • Long-overdue story of one of British boxing’s greats • Paints a vivid nostalgic picture of the boxing scene, giving a real feel for the culture and atmosphere of the 30s WHITECHAPEL • Of central interest to the boxing history market • Also a book with appeal to any sports fan – a story with WHIRLWIND immense human interest THE ‘ ’ • Written by respected author John Harding JACK KID BERG (Lonsdale’s Belt; Behind the Glory, the official STORY history of the Professional Footballers’ Association) JOHN HARDING • Includes colour photo section to accompany the text Description Jack Kid Berg dominated boxing in the early 1930s like no other British-born boxer before or since. Born of immigrant Russian- Jewish parents, he grew up in the East End of London, gaining a fearsome reputation for scrapping in the streets of Whitechapel. Berg’s American battles with Tony Canzoneri and Kid Chocolate gained him worldwide fame. His 1930 victory over Mushy Callahan made him world junior welterweight champion, and he won the British lightweight title at his first attempt in 1934. Old-timers recalled, ‘When you think Berg is going to slow down, he goes faster. He punched so fast he demoralised opponents rather than demolished them. No boxer was bolder and gamer.’ The Whitechapel Whirlwind features exclusive interviews with Berg in the years before his death in 1991, and makes deft use of eyewitness accounts, newspaper cartoons, statistics and photos of Jack’s 200-plus fights. Never a man to display false modesty, Berg is brutally frank about his wins, his losses, even his love life. Details Publication: 8 October 2018 Trade Orders to: LBS Ltd Price: £12.99 Faraday Close, Worthing BN13 3RB ISBN-13: 9781785314438 Format: 216mm x 138mm Telephone: 01903 828905 Binding: Paperback Fax: 01903 828802 Extent: 320 pages Email: [email protected] Category: Biography, Boxing You may also order via EDI.

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