THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY Crime Archive

Hardback. The Great Train Robbery was the heist of the 20th-century. fifteen petty crook made history in August 1963, seizing £2.6 million from the Glasgow to London mail train and then holing up at Leatherslade Farm to split the loot. But the grimly determined British police were soon hard on their heels. Crime Archive reveals the facts using original police and trial records, official correspondence and photographs held at The National Archives. Illus. + Index. 112pp. 16mo. h/back. Pictorial fr. cover. F.