In The Name Of Decent Citizens. The Trials Of Frank De Groot

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Publisher Place: Sydney
Publisher Year: 2006
Edition: First Edition

Description: 187 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The Opening Of The Sydney Harbor Bridge.

Publishers Description: A popular biography of Frank De Groot, the former hussar and Irishman, who in 1932 famously 'opened' the Sydney Harbour Bridge on horseback wielding his sword 'in the name of decent and respectable people of New South Wales'. Brian Wright's colourful history, based on his own extensive research and De Groot's own papers and writings, picks up the story of Frank De Groot on that infamous day and then investigates the strange and curious court case that followed the incident and the fate of the sword.

ISBN: 9780733319037