'Smugglers and swindlers, pimps and prostitutes, grog-sellers and generals, soldiers, sailors and ship chandlers, all lived cheek by jowl... within Victorian Gibraltar.' So wrote the British historian Ernle Bradford in his 1971 study GBRALTAR: THE HISTORY OF A FORTRESS. Nearly forty years later, Gibraltarian scholar and writer Dr. M. G. Sanchez uncovers part of this lost world in THE PROSTITUTES OF SERRUYA'S LANE AND OTHER HIDDEN GIBRALTARIAN HISTORIES (2007), a groundbreaking new book of essays on smuggling, prostitution, racism and other little-known aspects of Gibraltar's Victorian history. If you want to know what life in a nineteenth-century British military fortress was really like, then make sure to pick up this book. You will never view the Rock again in the same light....