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ISBN
9781789461725
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Book Title
Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Item Height
195mm
Author
Carl Chinn
Publisher
John Blake Publishing LTD
Topic
True Crime, Criminology
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
275g
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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The Peaky Blinders as we know them, thanks to the hit TV series, are infused with drama and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the disposable safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their flat caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. But who were the real Peaky Blinders? Did they really exist? Well-known social historian, broadcaster and author Carl Chinn has spent decades searching them out. Now he reveals the true story of the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an illegal bookmaker in back-street Birmingham. In this gripping social history, Chinn shines a light on the rarely reported struggles of the working class in one of the great cities of the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders transformed into the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the real Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over valuable protection rackets extorting money from bookmakers across the booming postwar racecourses of Britain. Drawing together a remarkably wide-range of original sources, including rarely seen images of real Peaky Blinders and interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: The Real Story adds a new dimension to the true history of Birmingham's underworld and fact behind its fiction.

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John Blake Publishing LTD
ISBN-13
9781789461725
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Book Title
Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs: The No. 1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Author
Carl Chinn
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
True Crime, Criminology
Publication Year
2019
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
288 Pages

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Item Height
195mm
Item Width
135mm
Item Weight
275g

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Carl Chinn
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United Kingdom

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  • by mickboot473
    16 Feb, 2021Most favourable review

    Good value

    It's good value for money an interesting read,although mine was used it was like brand New, so highly recommend.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: awesomebooksuk

  • by gi-644799
    19 Nov, 2021

    A great read

    True story of the real peaky blinders. A great insight into the gang culture back in the early years

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-ownedSold by: awesomebooksuk

  • by kchoc585
    30 Sep, 2020

    Peaky Blinders

    Brilliant book. Love the pictures. Very informative of years gone by and the need to survive.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: New

  • by kennyboy53
    17 Nov, 2019

    a heavyweight in a lightweight book.

    it is compelling because on watching the tv series, it was good to hear the real story.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: NewSold by: speedyhenuk

  • by mw0wee
    17 Jun, 2020

    A good read.

    A very interesting and well written book. Hard to put down.

    Verified purchase: YesCondition: New

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