The Great Train Robbery Files - Softcover

Reynolds, Bruce; Reynolds, Nick; Parker, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0953572463 ISBN 13: 9780953572465

Publisher: Abstract Sounds Publishing, 2000

Synopsis

Daring, ingenuity, prison, escapes, on the run, kidnap, drugs, murder, suicide and revenge - these are all facets contained in this visual documentary of great train robberies portrayed by the media from 1963 to the present. The book tells many stories within this story, providing an insight and study into one of our most enduring contemporary legends and illustrates the mythology that has grown up via the media. Here the robbery is used as a point of reference in time, a device used to illustrate the machinations of the media then and now, and its social and cultural impact. It includes press photos, press articles of the robbery, the discovery of the farm, the money found, Ronnie Biggs' escape, his near kidnap, the trials, the escapes, Buster on the run in Mexico, Bruce Reynolds on the run, Buster's suicide, Charlie Wilson's murder, Biggs' 70th birthday and a scrap yard of clippings not necessarily about the robbery but with those involved such as books and film launches, records, TV shows and commercial items.

Edition details

• Publisher: Abstract Sounds Publishing
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0953572463
• ISBN 13: 9780953572465
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224