Peaky Blinders

Billy Kimber was a cunning criminal with a magnetic personality who took over the leadership of Britain's most celebrated criminal gang: the Peaky Blinders, who dominated illegal trade protection businesses and horse racing gambling. Today, thanks to the hit television series, the Peaky Blinders are synonymous with arrogance, glamor, and rampant violence. But who were the true Peaky Blinders? After decades of study, historian Carl Chinn, the grandson of a Peaky Blinders member and the son of an illegal Birmingham bookmaker, draws on unpublished material and interviews with descendants of the band's members to offer a fascinating account of the rise and fall of the infamous mob that wreaked havoc in England at a time when the working class of the British Empire was on the warpath. These are the Peaky Blinders and this is their true story.