According to distributors COMAG Specialist: Taking place in the small hours of Thursday 8 August 1963, the hijacking of a Royal Mail train travelling between Glasgow and Euston, London was the first mass media crime in Britain, making headline news around the world and it continues to fascinate people.
The theft of 120 mailbags stuffed with £2.6m in used banknotes (around £46m in today’s money) was the largest robbery of its time and the long search for the perpetrators and bringing them to justice captivated the public, turning the culprits into household names.
While there have been many accounts of the crime in the subsequent years, for the first time ever, two of the key players have given their exclusive views on what took place before, during and after the events of The Great Train Robbery.
Bruce Reynolds, the mastermind of the robbery and Ronnie Biggs, the most famous of the robbers, have given their exclusive insights, thoughts and share their inside knowledge of what really took place and it is brought together with the official version of events for the first time ever in The Great Train Robbery 50th Anniversary: 1963 - 2013.
Working with Reynolds and Biggs, Reynolds’ son Nick and long-time collaborator of Biggs, Chris Packard, have personally spoken to many of the people involved in the crime and its aftermath – robbers and police - to produce the first comprehensive account of the event.
As well as the details as told by the individuals themselves, The Great Train Robbery 50th Anniversary: 1963 - 2013 will have information from the official records of the police, government and Post Office to be the definitive take on this crime.
With new revelations, stories of foul play and some bizarre new details about the crime, The Great Train Robbery 50th Anniversary: 1963 - 2013 will also look at the cultural impact of the crime, both then and now. People think they know all about The Great Train Robbery but they really do not, not until they read this, the real story!
