Great Train Robbery Quiz Book

Gray Mike

Description

The Great Train Robbery is one of the most well documented crimes of all time but how much do you really know about what happened on that fateful day in 1963 and in the years beyond? This new quiz book will tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the Great Train Robbery and the people involved.How many train robbers escaped from prison? What was the robbers' hideout called? Who was the first '30-year sentence' train robber to be released? The answers to these brain teasers and more can all be found inside The Great Train Robbery Quiz Book.With 100 questions all about the people involved in the robbery, where they are now, the detectives, Judge, books, films and TV programmes, this is a comprehensive guide to the most talked about UK heist in history.With 2013 marking the 50th anniversary, there is still a great deal of interest in the Great Train Robbery and if you would like to know more, this book is all you need.

Sujets

• True crime

Informations

• Publié par: Andrews UK
• Date de parution: 20 décembre 2013
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781908548771
• Langue: English

Extrait

Title Page
THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY QUIZ BOOK
200 Questions on the Great Train Robbery
Compiled by Mike Gray



Publisher Information
First published in 2013 by
Apex Publishing Ltd
PO Box 7086, Clacton on Sea
Essex, CO15 5WN, England
www.apexpublishing.co.uk
Digital edition converted and distributed in 2013
by Andrews UK Limited
www.andrewsuk.com
Copyright © 2013 Mike Gray
All rights reserved. This book is sold subject to the condition, that no part of this book is to be reproduced, in any shape or form. Or by way of trade, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, be lent, re-sold, hired out or otherwise circulated in any form of binding or cover other than that in which it is published and without a similar condition, including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser, without prior permission of the copyright holder.



About The Author
Mike Gray is the organiser of the ‘Free Ronnie Biggs’ campaign. He was born in 1957 in Lambeth, London. Mike first contacted Ronnie Biggs in Rio, Brazil, in 1989, and set up the Ronnie Biggs website with Michael Biggs in 1999. He was also involved in setting up ‘The Biggs Experience Limited’ with Ronnie, Michael, and Bruce and Nick Reynolds. Mike was a regular prison visitor to Biggs. Mike’s first book ‘Ronnie Biggs: The Inside Story’ was published in 2009, co-written with Tel Currie, and published by Apex Publishing Ltd.



Questions What year was the Great Train Robbery? How much money was stolen? In what part of England did the robbery take place? How many train robbers are still alive today? Which train robber’s birthday is on the same date as the robbery? How many train robbers escaped from prison? Where did the train robbers get sentenced?