The Train Robbers
Their Story
1st Edition
Published on 4. July 2013
352 pages
978-0-7535-5009-0 (ISBN)
Description
On Thursday August 8, 1963, fifteen masked men stopped the night train from Glasgow to London and robbed it of GBP2,500,000 (the equivalent of GBP41 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.
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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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Ebury Publishing
Target group
Professional and scholarly
College/higher education
File size
1,84 MB
ISBN-13
978-0-7535-5009-0 (9780753550090)
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07/2013
Virgin Books
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Person
Piers Paul Read, the son of poet and art critic Sir Herbert Read, was born in 1941 and educated at Ampleforth and Cambridge. He has published many novels and works of non-fiction and is the winner of numerous literary prizes, among them the Thomas More medal for distinguished contribution to Catholic literature for his book Alive. Reid is married with two sons and two daughters and lives in London.
