John Blake Publishing Ltd Peaky Blinders The Real Story & The Legacy By Carl Chinn

Peaky Blinders The Real Story and Peaky Blinders The Legacy by Carl Chinn, published by John Blake Publishing Ltd, bring together two titles that look beyond the television phenomenon and back to the history behind the name. Drawing on the world popularised on screen, these books consider what is known about the Peaky Blinders and the wider gangland landscape associated with them.

Peaky Blinders The Real Story contrasts the drama of the hit TV series with the question of who the Peaky Blinders were in reality, asking whether they truly existed. Peaky Blinders The Legacy returns to Billy Kimber’s Peaky Blinders, tracing their influence through the 1920s and 1930s and following how their empires spread across the UK, alongside shifting alliances, street wars and the response of the authorities.

Included titles

• Peaky Blinders The Real Story
• Peaky Blinders The Legacy

Key details

• Author: Carl Chinn
• Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Two-book collection

Synopses

Peaky Blinders The Real Story

The Peaky Blinders are presented on television as a fashionably dressed gang led by the charismatic but flawed Shelby family, fighting bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists and the authorities, including a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill. This book asks who the real Peaky Blinders were and whether they genuinely existed.

Peaky Blinders The Legacy

This title revisits the world of Billy Kimber’s Peaky Blinders and explores their legacy across the 1920s and 1930s, including how their growing empires spread throughout the UK. It looks at street wars across the country, the declaration of a War on Gangs by the Home Secretary after The Racecourse War in 1921, and how blackmailing bookmakers led to new opportunities for figures such as Sabini and Alfie Solomon, alongside new faces in the underworld.