Peaky Blinders - The Real Gangs and Gangsters

Following on from the success of our Peaky Blinders: The Real Story series, a fourth book in the series, Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangsters and Gangs will offer up a fresh perspective on the Birmingham gangs pre-1914

You know what the peaky blinders became ... It's time to see where they began.

At the turn of the twentieth century, Birmingham was seemingly transforming into a wealthy, bustling metropolis, celebrated for its manufacturing and local government. Yet behind this optimistic facade, the poorest and most vulnerable in society were abandoned. This longstanding inequality aroused unrest, sparking violence and terror from backstreet gangsters who'd become known as peaky blinders.

In this fourth instalment of the bestselling series, historian Carl Chinn draws upon his decades of expertise, and his own family history, to reveal even more about these notorious gangs, going back to where it all began. Chinn exposes the real people whose bloody feuds, murders and maiming, baiting of police officers, bullying of the decent poor, gendered violence, blackmailing, and disturbing roles in political riots and racist attacks made Birmingham infamous as the city of the peaky blinders.

Peaky Blinders: The Real Gangs and Gangsters is a vivid and shocking portrait of Birmingham, unpicking the storied history of its vicious gangs to reveal how they forced themselves into notoriety.