No Case to Answer (eBook)

The Men Who Got Away with the Great Train Robbery

Andrew Cook (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
372 Seiten
The History Press (Verlag)
978-1-80399-070-5 (ISBN)

Infos

'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.

Autor

Andrew Cook is an author and TV consultant. He has written for The Times, Guardian, Independent, BBC History Magazine and History Today. His previous books include On His Majesty's Secret Service (Tempus, 2002), Ace of Spies (Tempus, 2003), M: MI5's First Spymaster (Tempus, 2006), The Great Train Robbery (THP, 2013) and 1963: That Was the Year That Was (THP, 2013).

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.4.2022
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
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• Schlagworte: 1963 • Bob Welch • bruce reynolds • buckinghamshire • Buster Edwards • charlie wilson • Glasgow-Euston • Gordon Goody • great train robbery. train robber • great train robbery. train robber, tom wisbey, 1963, railway detective, bruce reynolds, ronnie biggs, Gordon Goody, Buster Edwards, Charlie Wilson, Roy James, John Daly, Jimmy White, Jim Hussey, Bob Welch, Roger Cordrey, mentmore bridge, buckinghamshire, Glasgow-Euston, sears crossing • Jim Hussey • Jimmy White • john daly • mentmore bridge • railway detective • Roger Cordrey • Ronnie Biggs • Roy James • sears crossing • tom wisbey
• ISBN-10: 1-80399-070-8 / 1803990708
• ISBN-13: 978-1-80399-070-5 / 9781803990705