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y separately published work icon Brothers in Arms single work   non-fiction  
Issue Details: First known date: 1989... 1989 Brothers in Arms
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'Father's Day 1984: seven people die in a blaze of gunfire on a sunny afternoon in a hotel car park.Among the dead, a fifteen year old girl caught in the crossfire when two heavily-armed bikie gangs, the Comancheros and the Bandidos, clash.

'Brothers in Arms tells the extraordinary story of this murderous outbreak, from its vicious beginnings in the closed world of Sydney's motorcycle gangs to its inevitable end in death and imprisonment.'

Source: publisher's blurb

Adaptations

form y separately published work icon Bikie Wars : Brothers in Arms Greg Haddrick , Roger Simpson , Jo Martino , ( dir. Peter Andrikidis ) 2012 Australia : Screentime Network Ten , 2012 Z1833118 2012 series - publisher film/TV

Based on the non-fiction book Brothers in Arms by Lindsay Simpson and Sandra Harvey, Bikie Wars is a dramatised account of the events leading up the 1984 Milperra massacre, a shoot-out between members of the outlaw motorcycle gang the Comancheros and the Bandidos, a group formed from a splinter group of former Comancheros: the massacre left 7 people dead and 28 wounded, and led to 63 murder convictions, 147 manslaughter convictions, and significant changes to NSW gun laws.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 1989 .
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      Extent: 267pp.p.
      Description: [16] p. of plates : ports.
      Reprinted: 28 Feb 2001
      ISBN: 0043270980, 9781865085012 (pbk)
    • Crows Nest, North Sydney - Lane Cove area, Sydney Northern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: Allen and Unwin , 2012 .
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      Extent: 288p.p.
      Edition info: TV Tie-In Ed.
      Note/s:
      • Published June 2012
      ISBN: 9781743311905
Last amended 8 Sep 2020 11:17:20
Subjects:
  • Milperra, Bankstown area, Sydney Southwest, Sydney, New South Wales,
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