Bibliograph

Six against the Rock, Clark Howard

Type

Label

Six against the Rock, Clark Howard

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Six against the Rock

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Clark Howard

Summary

The story of the infamous escape attempt and bloody siege at Alcatraz. In 1946, six men attempted to break out of Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, a maximum-security prison on an island off the coast of San Francisco. Their bloody siege lasted two days, and ended with five dead and fifteen wounded-plus two of the perpetrators executed for their role in the endeavor. In Six Against the Rock-the basis for a TV movie-an award-winning crime writer tells the story of this notorious event and the inmates who were involved, supplemented with vivid dramatic recreations that place the reader in the center of the conflict

Target audience

adult

Classification