The Tottenham Outrage and Walthamstow Tram Chase
The Most Spectacular Hot Pursuit in History
Not since the days of highwaymen and footpads had armed robbery been seen in London. Geoffrey Barton explains the political backdrop to the arrival in the UK of armed revolutionaries driven by their own frenzied missions, causing citizens to go in fear. Laws were passed to deal with aliens and terrorism but as the author explains the civil police were ill-equipped to deal with the problem. Although well known to local people, the Tottenham Outrage of 1909 when two Latvian robbers, Jewish refugees, intercepted a payroll has been comparatively hidden to the wider world (unlike the notorious Siege of Sydney Street which took place two years late…
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- ISBN: 978-1-909976-40-5
- EAN: 9781909976405
- Produktnummer: 22138688
- Verlag: Waterside Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 216 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.1 cm 336 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 336
Über den Autor
Geoff Barton joined the MPS in 1975, learning his trade in Brixton and Walworth, where his size, strength and power soon made him a fearsome adversary. Selected for firearms training he focused on tackling dangerous robbers, murderers and serial killers.
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