The Autobiography Of A Thief
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Author |
: Bruce Reynolds |
Publisher |
: Kings Road Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 479 |
Release |
: 2023-08-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781789467109 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1789467101 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (09 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Autobiography of a Thief by : Bruce Reynolds
On the 8th August 1963 a gang of 15 men stopped a mail train in Buckinghamshire and proceeded to steal sacks of money worth £2.6 million. It was the biggest heist ever carried out in the UK and frontpage news around the world. The mastermind behind this most audacious crime of the twentieth century was Bruce Reynolds. Perhaps the last of the 'gentlemen villains'; Reynolds epitomised that particular breed of sharply dressed, post-war criminals who mixed with royalty and movie stars, and never carried a gun. They thrived on adventure and glamour, and the Great Train Robbery was their last ride. From his childhood and early forays into crime, to planning the robbery and his life on the run, and finally his capture, prison years and growing old with the gang - this is a true crime classic. Widely regarded as a one of the finest memoirs of a life of crime, Autobiography of a Thief is essential listening for anyone interested in true crime. Narrated by his son, Nick Reynolds, who grew up on the run with his father.
Author |
: Hutchins Hapgood |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 362 |
Release |
: 1903 |
ISBN-10 |
: UCAL:$B268769 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Autobiography of a Thief by : Hutchins Hapgood
Author |
: Bruce Reynolds |
Publisher |
: Virgin Books Limited |
Total Pages |
: 328 |
Release |
: 2003 |
ISBN-10 |
: 185227929X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781852279295 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (9X Downloads) |
Synopsis Crossing the Line by : Bruce Reynolds
August 8th 1963; a railway track in Buckinghamshire. The moon shines clearly over Bruce Reynolds and 16 other men robbing a mail train of its sacks of money. The Great Train Robbery has entered British folklore as one of the most audacious crimes of the 20th century. The haul was u2,631,684 - the equivalent in 2002, u26 million. Bruce Reynolds, the leader of the gang, was sentenced to 25 years in prison in 1969 for his role in the robbery - he was released in 1978."
Author |
: Hutchins Hapgood |
Publisher |
: HOLISTENCE PUBLICATIONS |
Total Pages |
: 265 |
Release |
: 2024-01-11 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9786256646261 |
ISBN-13 |
: 6256646266 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Autobiography of a Thief by : Hutchins Hapgood
Author |
: Charles Reade |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 337 |
Release |
: 1862* |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:11408624 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Autobiography of a Thief, and Other Histories ... by : Charles Reade
Author |
: Michael Finkel |
Publisher |
: Knopf Canada |
Total Pages |
: 229 |
Release |
: 2023-06-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780735278967 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0735278962 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Art Thief by : Michael Finkel
NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, Stéphane Breitwieser. • “The Art Thief, like its title character, has confidence, élan, and a great sense of timing."—The New Yorker "Enthralling." —The Wall Street Journal In this spellbinding portrait of obsession and flawed genius, the best-selling author of The Stranger in the Woods brings us into Breitwieser’s strange world—unlike most thieves, he never stole for money, keeping all his treasures in a single room where he could admire them. For centuries, works of art have been stolen in countless ways from all over the world, but no one has been quite as successful at it as the master thief Stéphane Breitwieser. Carrying out more than two hundred heists over nearly eight years—in museums and cathedrals all over Europe—Breitwieser, along with his girlfriend who worked as his lookout, stole more than three hundred objects, until it all fell apart in spectacular fashion. In The Art Thief, Michael Finkel brings us into Breitwieser’s strange and fascinating world. Unlike most thieves, Breitwieser never stole for money. Instead, he displayed all his treasures in a pair of secret rooms where he could admire them to his heart’s content. Possessed of a remarkable athleticism and an innate ability to circumvent practically any security system, Breitwieser managed to pull off a breathtaking number of audacious thefts. Yet these strange talents bred a growing disregard for risk and an addict’s need to score, leading Breitwieser to ignore his girlfriend’s pleas to stop—until one final act of hubris brought everything crashing down. This is a riveting story of art, crime, love, and an insatiable hunger to possess beauty at any cost.
Author |
: Moishe Rozenbaumas |
Publisher |
: Syracuse University Press |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2019-11-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780815654728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0815654723 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Odyssey of an Apple Thief by : Moishe Rozenbaumas
In The Odyssey of an Apple Thief, Moishe Rozenbaumas (1922–2016) recounts his fascinating life, from his Lithuanian boyhood, to the fraught experiences that take him across Europe and Central Asia and back again, to his daring escape from Soviet Russia to build a new life in Paris. Along the way, we get a rarely seen portrait of the lives of working-class Jewish youth in Telz/Telsiai, a religious town renowned for its yeshiva. We hear of the games children played, the theft of apples from a Catholic orchard, and Rozenbaumas’s early apprenticeship as a tailor once his father leaves the country. The war breaks out and the teenaged Rozenbaumas flees Lithuania alone, unable to convince his mother and sibling to go with him. We learn of his life as a starved refugee in an Uzbek kolkhoz, his escape into the Red Army, and his unlikely work in the reconnaissance unit of the Soviet Army. After the war, Rozenbaumas is drafted into the Marxist-Leninist university and as a cadre of the Communist Party, ultimately escaping in 1956 with his family to Paris, where he and his wife give an openly Jewish education to their children. In the vast literature of memory written by Jewish witnesses before, during, and after WWII, Rozenbaumas’s account stands out for the singularity of his experience and for his deft narration of events of mythological dimension from a personal perspective. The Odyssey of an Apple Thief offers not only invaluable testimony of this historical moment but also an illuminating and original portrait of Lithuanian Jews in the twentieth century.
Author |
: Hapgood Hutchins |
Publisher |
: Hardpress Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 216 |
Release |
: 2016-06-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1318089387 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781318089383 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (87 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Autobiography of a Thief by : Hapgood Hutchins
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.
Author |
: Anonymous |
Publisher |
: Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages |
: 192 |
Release |
: 2016-05-23 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501157868 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501157868 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (68 Downloads) |
Synopsis Diary of an Oxygen Thief by : Anonymous
Hurt people hurt people. Say there was a novel in which Holden Caulfield was an alcoholic and Lolita was a photographer’s assistant and, somehow, they met in Bright Lights, Big City. He’s blinded by love. She by ambition. Diary of an Oxygen Thief is an honest, hilarious, and heartrending novel, but above all, a very realistic account of what we do to each other and what we allow to have done to us.
Author |
: Markus Zusak |
Publisher |
: Knopf Books for Young Readers |
Total Pages |
: 578 |
Release |
: 2007-12-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307433848 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307433846 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (48 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Book Thief by : Markus Zusak
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE’S 100 BEST YA BOOKS OF ALL TIME The extraordinary, beloved novel about the ability of books to feed the soul even in the darkest of times. When Death has a story to tell, you listen. It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will become busier still. Liesel Meminger is a foster girl living outside of Munich, who scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist–books. With the help of her accordion-playing foster father, she learns to read and shares her stolen books with her neighbors during bombing raids as well as with the Jewish man hidden in her basement. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak, author of I Am the Messenger, has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. “The kind of book that can be life-changing.” —The New York Times “Deserves a place on the same shelf with The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank.” —USA Today DON’T MISS BRIDGE OF CLAY, MARKUS ZUSAK’S FIRST NOVEL SINCE THE BOOK THIEF.