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The Great Train Robbery

Author : Nick Russell-Pavier
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
ISBN 13 : 0297864408
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (978 download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Nick Russell-Pavier and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Definitive account of the famous 1963 Great Train Robbery - and its aftermath. In the early hours of Thursday 8th August 1963 at rural Cheddington in Buckinghamshire, £2.6 million (£50 million today) in unmarked £5, £1 and 10-shilling notes was stolen from the Glasgow to London nightmail train in a daring and brilliantly executed operation lasting just 46 minutes. Quickly dubbed the crime of the century, it has captured the imagination of the public and the world's media for 50 years, taking its place in British folklore and giving birth to the myths of The Great Train Robbery. Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds became household names. But what really happened? This is the story of four talented villains who took the criminal world by storm, of the 'perfect crime'. It is also the story of ruthless policemen, determined to hunt the robbers down and to make sure nobody slipped through the net, not even the innocent. It is the story of an Establishment under siege, and of one mistake which cost the robbers 307 years in prison. Fifty years later, here is the story set out in full for the first time, a true-life crime thriller, and also a vivid slice of British social history.

The Great Train Robbery

Author : Michael Crichton
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307816443
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Michael Crichton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-05-14 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Jurassic Park, Timeline, and Sphere comes an enthralling novel about Victorian London’s most notorious gold heist. London, 1855, when lavish wealth and appalling poverty exist side by side, one mysterious man navigates both worlds with perfect ease. Edward Pierce preys on the most prominent of the well-to-do as he cunningly orchestrates the crime of his century. Who would suspect that a gentleman of breeding could mastermind the extraordinary robbery aboard the pride of England’s industrial era, the mighty steam locomotive? Based on fact, but studded with all the suspense and style of fiction, here is a classic historical thriller, set a decade before the age of dynamite—yet nonetheless explosive…

The First Great Train Robbery

Author : David C. Hanrahan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780709090403
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book The First Great Train Robbery written by David C. Hanrahan and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In May 1855, the citizens of Victorian Great Britain were shocked to read in their morning edition of The Times that 12,000 pounds worth of gold bars and other valuables had been stolen from a train travelling between London and Paris--without explosives or violence! Who did it and how was a great mystery which was finally solved.

Case of the Great Train Robbery

Author : Rae Bains
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780893755881
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (558 download)

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Download or read book Case of the Great Train Robbery written by Rae Bains and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark and his pet skunk, Sheldon, outwit a pair of train robbers.

The Great Train Robbery

Author : Andrew Cook
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752492225
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book The Great Train Robbery written by Andrew Cook and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Train Robbery of 1963 is one of the most infamous crimes in British history. The bulk of the money stolen (equivalent to over £40 million today) has never been recovered, and there has not been a single year since 1963 when one aspect of the crime or its participants has not been featured in the media. Despite the wealth and extent of this coverage, a host of questions have remained unanswered: Who was behind the robbery? Was it an inside job? And who got away with the crime of the century? Fifty years of selective falsehood and fantasy has obscured the reality of the story behind the robbery. The fact that a considerable number of the original investigation and prosecution files on those involved and alleged to have been involved were closed, in many cases until 2045, has only served to muddy the waters still further. Now, through Freedom of Information requests and the exclusive opening of many of these files, Andrew Cook reveals a new picture of the crime and its investigation that, at last, provides answers to many of these questions.

Great Train Robbery Confidential

Author : Graham Satchwell
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750993464
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Great Train Robbery Confidential written by Graham Satchwell and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2019-10-04 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1981, Detective Inspector Satchwell was the officer in charge of the case against Train Robber Tom Wisbey and twenty others. The case involved massive thefts from mail trains – similar to the Great Train Robbery of 1963 where £2.6 million was taken and only £400,000 ever recovered. Thirty years later their paths crossed again and an unlikely partnership was formed, with the aim of revealing the truth about the Great Train Robbery. This book reassesses the known facts about one of the most infamous crimes in modern history from the uniquely qualified insight of an experienced railway detective, presenting new theories alongside compelling evidence and correcting the widely accepted lies and half-truths surrounding this story.

The Secret Train Robber

Author : Lee Sturley
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1473503973
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Train Robber written by Lee Sturley and published by Random House. This book was released on 2015-05-21 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Crime of the Century. The biggest train heist in Britain’s history. The Great Train Robbery. In the early hours of Thursday, 8th August 1963, a fifteen-strong gang stole £2.6 million (£45 million of today’s money) from the Glasgow to London mail train at Sears Crossing, Buckinghamshire. The crime was so epic; every single development of the case was followed tirelessly by the press. Countless books have since been published and, even today, films, television dramas and documentaries continue to study the smallest of details of one of the most daring and cleverly concocted criminal plans of all-time. Much of the gang were later captured and paid the price with lengthy jail sentences. But 50 years on, many still question who the real mastermind behind the plot. For years most people accepted that Bruce Reynolds was but is that really the case? One man knows the answer and the true identity of the man behind the robbery all too well. In this engrossing biography, the only living person who personally knows the real mastermind revisits the Great Train Robbery and rewrites history as we know it. Full of explosive, fresh revelations, The Secret Train Robber sees the final piece of the puzzle firmly set in place and the name of one of Britain’s most sophisticated criminal minds ever is finally revealed.

How to Rob a Train

Author : Gordon Goody
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781908479815
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book How to Rob a Train written by Gordon Goody and published by . This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gordon Goody is the mystery man of the Great Train Robbery, the most notorious theft in British history. Regarded by his partners as tough and fearless, he has kept his silence for five decades. Until now. Raised in rural Northern Ireland, Goody served as an army sergeant but chose a life of crime and became one of the most professional and prolific robbers in London. He and his gang were offered the job of a lifetime: details of a Glasgow to London mail train laden with cash, provided by The Ulsterman, whose identity Goody reveals for the first time.

Signal Red

Author : Robert Ryan
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480477672
Total Pages : 547 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Signal Red written by Robert Ryan and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-25 with total page 547 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An edge-of-your-seat caper based on one of the most sensational crimes in British history In August 1963, a Royal Mail train traveling between Glasgow and London was forced to make an unscheduled stop. Led by a charismatic jewel thief, a gang of fifteen unarmed men boarded the train, incapacitated the driver, and made off with more than £2 million. Divided equally, it was more than enough money for them to disappear forever—if they could all keep quiet. Incensed by the brazenness of the crime, Scotland Yard investigators employed every means they could think of to get the thieves to turn on one another. Soon, a meticulous plan descended into a desperate free-for-all as the gang went down one by one. This heart-racing novel inspired by the Great Train Robbery asks the most fascinating question of all: Who talked? This ebook includes an afterword by Bruce Reynolds, mastermind of the Great Train Robbery. Signal Red is the 3rd book in the Great British Heroes and Antiheroes Trilogy, which also includes Empire of Sand and Death on the Ice.

The Train Robbers

Author : Piers Paul Read
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0753550091
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (535 download)

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Download or read book The Train Robbers written by Piers Paul Read and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Great Train Robberies of the Old West

Author : R. Michael Wilson
Publisher : Two Dot Books
ISBN 13 : 9780762741502
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (415 download)

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Download or read book Great Train Robberies of the Old West written by R. Michael Wilson and published by Two Dot Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1800s trains carried the nation's wealth throughout the east, but no one thought to rob a speeding train until 1866. In 1870 the first western train was robbed in Nevada and within hours a second train was robbed. Railroads made every alteration to their cars and changed every procedure they could imagine to thwart the robbers, but to no avail. Robbing trains became epidemic over the next five decades, even when the legislatures made train robbery a capital crime. A few of the hundreds of train robberies stand out as thrilling and dangerous affairs, and the greatest of these (15-20) are included in this book.

The Autobiography of a Thief

Author : Bruce Reynolds
Publisher : Kings Road Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1789467101
Total Pages : 479 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (894 download)

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Download or read book The Autobiography of a Thief written by Bruce Reynolds and published by Kings Road Publishing. This book was released on 2023-08-07 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the 8th August 1963 a gang of 15 men stopped a mail train in Buckinghamshire and proceeded to steal sacks of money worth £2.6 million. It was the biggest heist ever carried out in the UK and frontpage news around the world. The mastermind behind this most audacious crime of the twentieth century was Bruce Reynolds. Perhaps the last of the 'gentlemen villains'; Reynolds epitomised that particular breed of sharply dressed, post-war criminals who mixed with royalty and movie stars, and never carried a gun. They thrived on adventure and glamour, and the Great Train Robbery was their last ride. From his childhood and early forays into crime, to planning the robbery and his life on the run, and finally his capture, prison years and growing old with the gang - this is a true crime classic. Widely regarded as a one of the finest memoirs of a life of crime, Autobiography of a Thief is essential listening for anyone interested in true crime. Narrated by his son, Nick Reynolds, who grew up on the run with his father.

The Mystery Box: Case of the great train robbery

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780727016799
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (167 download)

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Download or read book The Mystery Box: Case of the great train robbery written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mark and his pet skunk, Sheldon, outwit a pair of train robbers.

Three Complete Novels

Author : Willa Cather
Publisher : Gramercy
ISBN 13 : 9780517064931
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (649 download)

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Download or read book Three Complete Novels written by Willa Cather and published by Gramercy. This book was released on 1992 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of the first three novels written by Willa Cather, one of the most important American writers of the twentieth century.

The Wizard of Berkeley

Author : Eugene B. Block
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wizard of Berkeley written by Eugene B. Block and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The chapters of this book are culled from the notebooks of a newspaperman ... and from the police and court records of a number of baffling mysteries over many years. They are mysteries that seemed insoluble but which were unraveled through the extraordinary skill of one man, one of the recognized pioneers in scientific crime detection in America, a man of science whose methods paved the way for many of the scientific procedures regarded today as routine in police laboratories throughout the country. So remarkable were the achievements of Edward Oscar Heinrich in his peculiar field and so far did his reputation spread through this country and abroad that the writer felt impelled to piece together for this volume the notes gathered through years of newspaper work. They are cases in which truth stands out as stranger than fiction and in which the actual accomplishments of Mr. Heinrich are revealed as more brilliant than those of any novelist's imaginary master criminologist." --

The Great Brain Robbery

Author : David Charles Cuningham Watson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780802433039
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book The Great Brain Robbery written by David Charles Cuningham Watson and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Last Train Robber

Author : W. C. Jameson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1493046098
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book The Last Train Robber written by W. C. Jameson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-03-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the most colorful parts of American History is the time of train robberies and the daring outlaws who undertook them in the period covering from just after the Civil War to 1924. For decades, the railroads were the principal transporters of payrolls, gold and silver, bonds, and passengers who often carried large sums of money as well as valuable jewelry. For the creative outlaw, trains became an obvious target for robbery. Willis Newton has never enjoyed the recognition and fame of the better known train robbing outlaws such as Frank and Jesse James, Butch Cassidy, the Daltons, and the Doolins, but he was the most prolific and successful train robber in the history of North America. Newton stole more money from the railroads than all of the others put together. During his lifetime, Newton robbed six trains and an estimated eighty banks, pulled off the greatest train robbery ever, netting $3,000,000, yet remains virtually unknown. So unknown was he that, despite all of his success as a robber, he was rarely identified as a suspect. Following his greatest heist, Newton and his gang member, composed of his brothers, were arrested, tried, convicted, and sent to serve long terms at Leavenworth Prison. When they were granted early release for good behavior, they lost no time in returning to robbing banks. Willis Newton’s life and times as America’s greatest, and last, train robber has been gleaned and developed from extensive interviews he granted during the 1970s when he was in his eighties. In addition, newspaper reports of his numerous train and bank robberies have been obtained and researched for precise details of robberies and pursuit.