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The Great Train Robbery

The Great Train Robbery
of 1963 is one of the
most infamous crimes in
British history. The bulk
of the money stolen
(equivalent to over ?40
million today) has never
been recovered, and
there has not been a
single year since 1963
when one aspect of the
crime or its participants
has not been featured in
the media. Despite the
wealth and extent of this
coverage, a host of
questions have remained
unanswered: Who was
behind the robbery? Was
it an inside job? And who
got away with the crime
of the century? Fifty
years of selective
falsehood and fantasy has
obscured the reality of
the story behind the
robbery. The fact that a
considerable number of
the original
investigation and
prosecution files on
those involved and
alleged to have been
involved were closed, in
many cases until 2045,
has only served to muddy
the waters still further.
Now, through Freedom of
Information requests and
the exclusive opening of
many of these files,
Andrew Cook reveals a new
picture of the crime and
its investigation that,
at last, provides
answers to many of these
questions.

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A State Of War Exists

The worst moment in a war
was my fear I would not
be sent to it. So wrote
the young Mike Nicholson,
a reporter whose
astonishing career has
covered eighteen major
conflicts. Published to
coincide with the
thirtieth anniversary of
the Falklands War a
conflict Nicholson
famously covered for ITN
A State of War Exists
sees the veteran
journalist pondering what
made him want to risk
life and limb,
travelling to the most
dangerous parts of the
world at the most
dangerous times over two
hundred journalists have
been killed in the last
three years alone. Was it
machismo or masochism
that encouraged him to so
compulsively and
repeatedly to risk his
life? Probably, he
concludes, it was both.
This remarkable book
looks at the history of
war reporting through a
century and a half of
conflict journalism from
the Crimea to the Kevlar
wearing, technology
dependent hacks of today,
trying desperately to
fill the twenty-four hour
rolling news vacuum.
Along the way, Nicholson
introduces us to the
greats of his trade and
looks at what made them
do what they did and what
sets them apart from the
rest, including William
Howard Russell, Frederic
Villiers, Martha
Gellhorn, Henry Wood
Nevison, James Cameron,
Claire Hollingworth and
Michael Herr.

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