No Case to Answer: The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery - Couverture rigide

Cook, Andrew

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ISBN 10 : 0750993863 ISBN 13 : 9780750993869

Editeur : The History Press Ltd, 2022

Synopsis

'There I met and was introduced to 13 men, one of whom I already knew. Three of these men and another who joined the group later have never, to my knowledge, been wanted by the police in connection with the train robbery so, for their protection, I will refer to them as, Joe, Bert, Sid, and Fred.'

Ronnie Biggs

In the early hours of Thursday, 8 August 1963, sixteen masked men ambushed the Glasgow-Euston mail train at Sears Crossing in Buckinghamshire. Making off with a record haul of £2.6 million, the robbers received approximately £150,000 each (over £2 million in today's money). While twelve of the robbers were jailed over the next five years, four were never brought to justice - they evaded arrest and thirty-year prison sentences, and lived out the rest of their lives in freedom. In stark contrast to the likes of Ronnie Biggs, Buster Edwards and Bruce Reynolds, they became neither household names nor tabloid celebrities.

Who were these men? How did they escape detection for so long? And how, almost sixty years later, are their names not common knowledge? In No Case to Answer, Andrew Cook gathers and examines decades of evidence and lays it out end-to-end. It's time for you to draw your own conclusions.

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À propos de l'auteur

ANDREW COOK is an author and TV consultant. He has written for The Times, The Guardian, The Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today. His previous books include Ace of Spies (Tempus Publishing); M: MI5's First Spymaster (Tempus Publishing); The Great Train Robbery (The History Press); and 1963: That Was the Year That Was (The History Press). He lives in Bedfordshire.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: The History Press Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0750993863
• ISBN 13: 9780750993869
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 256
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• Personne responsable: non disponible