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Peaky Blinders: The Real Story The True History of Birmingham's Most Notorious Gang

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內容簡介 浴血黑幫的真貌。比利・金柏聰明迷人善打鬥，在一戰後的伯明罕後街，順利當上伯明罕幫老大，並將獲利豐厚的英格蘭馬場納入地盤。幫中成員則來自猛士幫和剃刀黨。THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERThe 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.【走進閱讀世界｜迷誠品:專文推薦】標題｜英國影集《浴血黑幫》7金句側寫現實人生，助你在逆境之中成長茁壯撰文｜迷誠品內容中心這部由英國演員Cillian Murphy主演的黑幫影集，描述第一次世界大戰後不久的英國，揉合部分史實，側寫一代人的興起緣滅和細膩心思；不但角色演技入木三分，冷色系的視覺亦為故事染上濃厚的時代氣息，彷彿當年《教父》引人入勝。☞點此進入迷誠品閱讀文章

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作者介紹 Carl ChinnProfessor Carl Chinn MBE Ph.D. is a social historian with a national profile, writer, public speaker, and teacher. An off-course bookmaker himself until 1984, he is the son and grandson of illegal bookmakers in Sparkbrook, and the great-grandson of a peaky blinder, whilst his mother's family were factory workers in Aston. His writings are deeply affected by his family's working-class background and life in the back-to-backs of Birmingham and he believes passionately that history must be democratised because each and every person has made their mark upon history and has a story to tell.

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