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Peaky Blinders - The Real Story of Birmingham's most notorious gangs

Yazan: Carl Chinn
Seslendiren: Carl Chinn
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The 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 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.

Learn more in Book 2 'Peaky Blinders: The Legacy' also now available in audiobook! 20th Century Modern Organized Crime True Crime Suç Düşündürücü Winston Churchill Birleşik Krallık İngiltere Savaş
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Although the book had some interesting facts and information it felt very padded out and could have been half the length. Although the author is very enthusiastic about his subject and Birmingham in general his narration was lacking at times and his enthusiasm distracted from the stories. I struggled to finish the audio book and would feel this is a good example were the author narrating his own work did not work.

Interesting in parts

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Very good and interesting listen and a good insight to see where the series had come from despite the book being so different from the series with it being full of real life events from history records.

Real time Peaky Blinders

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I was looking forward to listening this, it was slow, and it did not get any better.It sounded like it was getting read from newspaper clippings. Felt it could have been better.
Didn't like narrator.

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I don't really know where to start! Carl Chinn decided to narrate his own book.... but I wish he had received guidance. Whilst his native "twang" shines through and adds some atmosphere to the story, ever now and then he ends up suddenly shouting!!! I also got the impression that while he's done good research, he tends to use every paper cutting he can, rather than tell the story his own way. I will say that it seems to tell you the BBC have taken some liberty with the truth and converted the true story into something more fantastic rather than true to life because the true story is pretty boring. So...... Moving swiftly on........ 😑

Loosing Interest due to story line.

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Informative book but why did narrator feel he had to shout and get too excited when reading quotes 🤦🏼‍♂️

Stop shouting

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