The Great Train Robber: My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Heist

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Chris Pickard

The Great Train Robber

My Autobiography: The Inside Story of Britain's Most Notorious Heist

Chris Pickard

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John Blake Publishing Ltd
10 October 2023

Autobiography: general; True crime; Social & cultural history; Trains & railways: general interest

The day is 8 August 1963. It is the early hours of the morning, and a group of men are waiting at a railway bridge in Buckinghamshire. They are about to rob a mail train, on its way to London from Glasgow, and they have no idea that on board they will find approximately 2.5 million (over 50 million in today's money) in cash - the largest of its time.

Among their number is Ronnie Biggs. He will be remembered long after most of the other names are forgotten, and the money spent or lost.

What is it about Ronnie Biggs that fascinates people sixty years on from the crime that made his name? Is it the man or the myth that makes Ron a latter-day Robin Hood - the odd man in the confederation of criminals who held up a train on that fateful day?

This is Ronnie Biggs' official autobiography. It tells of one of the most extraordinary lives of the twentieth century. From Ron's daring escape from HMP Wandsworth, to how he managed to outwit and outrun a posse of law enforcement officers as one of the world's most wanted men; from plastic surgery in Paris, and his years on the run in Brazil - complete with two kidnappings and an attempted suicide - to his return to the UK after 13,087 extraordinary days on the run.

Published for the sixtieth anniversary of Britain's most famous crime, this is a daring, exciting and often misunderstood life of a man who has seen and done it all, told in his own words.

By: Chris Pickard
Imprint: John Blake Publishing Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 304g
ISBN: 9781789465976
ISBN 10: 1789465974
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 10 October 2023
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ronnie Biggs was an English criminal who helped plan and carry out the Great Train Robbery of 1963. He subsequently became notorious for his escape from prison in 1965, living as a fugitive for 36 years, and for his various publicity stunts while in exile. In 2001, Biggs returned to the United Kingdom and spent several years in prison, where his health rapidly declined. He was released from prison on compassionate grounds in August 2009 and died in a nursing home in December 2013. Chris Pickard was the original ghostwriter of Ronnie's bestselling autobiography, Odd Man Out, originally published by Bloomsbury in 1995.