Bruce A Reynolds

Great Train Robbery (1963)

… Brian Field came to the farm on Thursday to pick up his share of the loot and to take Roy James to London to find an extra vehicle. Bruce Reynolds and John Daly picked up cars, one for Jimmy White and the other for Reynolds, Daly, Biggs and the replacement train driver. Field, his wife Kari...

Bruce Reynolds

Bruce Richard Reynolds (7 September 1931 28 February 2013) was an English criminal, who masterminded the 1963 Great Train Robbery. At the time it was...

Thailand and Japan's Southern Advance, 1940-1945

The crises that marked the dramatic expansion of Japanese rule over Asia posed unique problems for Thailand. The only independent country in Southeast Asia, Thailand was clearly too weak to withstand Japan, but, as a sovereign state, it had the great advantage that it could not be "liberated" by the...

Autobiography of a Thief

This is the true story of a life of crime from Bruce Reynolds, the man who masterminded the Great Train Robbery. In 1946 Reynolds left school but was appalled at the thought of being in the same work for the rest of his life. There were minor crimes at first and by 1961 he was running a "firm". He a...

Thailand's Secret War: OSS, SOE and the Free Thai Underground during World War II (Cambridge Military Histories)

Despite its 1941 alliance with Japan, Thai leaders managed to establish clandestine relations with China, Britain and the United States, each of which had ambitions for postwar influence in Bangkok. Based largely on recently declassified intelligence records, this narrative history thoroughly explo...

Paris with the Lid Lifted (Applewood After Dark)

Newly published under the Applewood After Dark imprint is a facsimile of this lighthearted “guide book” to Parisian nightlife in the 1920s, written by Bruce Reynolds. Subtitled “A new sort of ‘Travel Cocktail’ that works fast and kicks hard, and opens the gates to a ‘million dollars’ worth of frolic...

Autobiography of a Thief

8 August 1963; a railway track in Buckinghamshire. The moon shines clearly over Bruce Reynolds and sixteen other men robbing a train of its sacks of money. The Great Train Robbery has entered British folklore as one of the most audacious and extraordinary crimes of the twentieth century. The haul GB...

The Crew Book

The Crew Book is a soul-gripping, first-hand eye witness, account written by Commander Bruce Alger, Former United States Congressman, recounting in accurate details the story of a particular B-29 combat crew during training and combat in the South Pacific from July 1944 through October 1945.

Art of the Upset

Crossing the Line: The Autobiography of a Thief

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 #2,631,684 - the eq...