Show Me the Bodies : How We Let Grenfell Happen
Show Me the Bodies : How We Let Grenfell Happen
Binding: Paperback,
Date of Publication: 10/11/2022,
Pagination: 352 pages,
Series: N/A,
Imprint: Oneworld Publications,
Published By: Oneworld Publications,
Book Classification: London, Greater London,
Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 34
ISBN13/EAN/SKU: 9780861546152
***WINNER OF THE ORWELL PRIZE FOR POLITICAL WRITING 2023***'Never before, in years of reviewing books about buildings, has one brought me to tears. This one did.' Rowan Moore, Observer Book of the WeekOn 14 June 2017, a 24-storey block of flats went up in flames.
The fire climbed up cladding as flammable as solid petrol. Fire doors failed to self-close. No alarm rang out to warn sleeping residents. As smoke seeped into their homes, all were told to ‘stay put’. Many did – and they died.
It was a tragedy decades in the making.
Peter Apps meticulously exposes how a steady stream of deregulation, corporate greed and institutional indifference caused a tragedy. 72 people did not need to die, as the Grenfell Tower Inquiry makes clear. Here is the story of a grieving community forsaken by our government, a community still waiting for justice.
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