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The Train Robbers: Their Story

By Piers Paul Read

Book information

Publisher
Ebury Publishing
Year
2013
ISBN
9780753550090, 9780753541760
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
2 MB (1840334 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-04 11:00:39
Biography & Autobiography; True Crime; Crime; Nonf

Description

On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of £2,500,000 (the equivalent of £41 million today). It was called the crime of the century, and the thieves were relentlessly pursued by Scotland Yard until half the gang were behind bars serving huge prison terms. But the story did not end there. First one, then another escaped in thrilling style and fled abroad, catching the world's imagination and making the Train Robbers into folk heroes. Thirteen years later, the gang combined to tell their story, and Piers Paul Read, author of the bestselling Alive, agreed to write it. This is the classic, complete and exclusive story of the twentieth-century's most audacious crime and its even more sensational aftermath.

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