Stewart Richards

An excellent and detailed resource for anyone who wants a comprehensive review of the great train robbery. Does a good job of de-mythologising the usual story and shows what a shambles it really was.

As a general read it is great as far as taking you through the actual robbery and immediate aftermath but then the blow by blow accounts of how most of participants were rounded up, the trail and aftermath are rather tedious.

It depends how you look at it. I have rated it three stars on the basis of my enjoyment which fell away about half way through. However, if you rate it as a comprehensive, almost forensic examination of before during and after then you'd have to say it is a five star book.… (meer)