On a sunny May morning in 1990, £292 million walked out of the Bank of England. Two men were killed. One man jailed. You can read all about it in today's Daily Mail. Better still, the best-selling HOW TO ROB THE BANK OF ENGLAND is now out in paperback: CLICK: www.amazon.co.uk/How-Rob-Bank...

A brilliant conman, a missing £135 million, and a trail of bodies from London to Miami. The greatest heist in British history was never about the money. Paperback out 23 October. lnkd.in/eVGZurpS

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@tg8o.bsky.social - This is Salaria Kea, the amazing black nurse who, at age 20, volunteered in the International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. A moving and inspirational story that will take your breath away. Click the picture:
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You can see in the photograph a writer running from the horror of the first paragraph. CLICK below, it's fun...
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WHAT IS A GENTLEMEN’S AGREEMENT? One way or another - the rich get richer. open.substack.com/pub/clifford...

When I first arrived in Barcelona, Franco was still staring down from the wall in every bar and cafe. It was like the war had never ended - and perhaps wars never do?

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5***** "We Shall Pass is the best novel set during the Spanish Civil War since Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls. Truly a great read," Riva Hendricks, Amazon -  
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'Very powerful,' PETER YORK. 'A warning, if ever we need one,' NEIL JORDAN.
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They had never sat together like this, real coffee in a café; people living normal lives. It’s the small things that matter. We strive for purpose and meaning, but 10 minutes having coffee with friends in a Spanish café. These are the things that make us human.
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A tree fell on my head and cracked my skull – when my head opened, the universe looked in at me and I looked out at the universe. That's when I became an existentialist.
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"Young idealistic British volunteers to the Spanish Civil War find themselves in a Guernica-like nightmare, an ever-rising body-count. Add a love triangle stretched across the extremes of the English 1930s class system and you have something very powerful." PETER YORK - mybook.to/qkiNQ