The Brave Blue Line

100 Years of Metropolitan Police Gallantry

The Brave Blue Line
Kirby Dick
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Paperback
h234 x 156mm - 208pg
30 Jan 2022
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9781399014908
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In their daily battle against a remorseless tide of crime, officers of Londons Metropolitan Police routinely risk their lives protecting society. Veteran detective and crime author Dick Kirby has brought together a superb collection of inspiring stories of police gallantry over the last hundred years. All four officers to be honoured with the George Cross, the highest civilian award have their stories told including Jim Beaton who saved Princess Anne from kidnap in The Mall. Three women officers have been awarded the George Medal, two for decoy work, the third for a heroic rooftop rescue. The book concludes with the astonishing story of a retired detective who tackled armed robbers at the cost of his eye. He may have left the Met behind him but not his courage. Every page of this gripping book is full of excitement and courage of the highest order.
Dick Kirby was born in the East End of London and joined the Metropolitan Police in 1967\. Half of his twenty-six years' service was spent with Scotland Yard' s Serious Crime Squad and the Flying Squad. Kirby contributes to newspapers and magazines on a regular basis, as well as appearing on television and radio. The Guv' nors, The Sweeney, Scotland Yard' s Ghost Squad, Brave Blue Line, Death on the Beat, Scourge of Soho, Scotland Yard' s Flying Squad, London' s Gangs at War, Scotland Yard' s Gangbuster, The Mayfair Mafia, Scotland Yard' s Murder Squad, Racetrack Gangs, IRA Terror on Britain' s Streets, Scotland Yard' s Casebook of Serious Crime and The Brighton Police Scandal are all published under the Wharncliffe True Crime imprint and he has further other published works to his credit. On retirement he lives near Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk. Kirby can be visited at his website: www. dickkirby. com.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781399014908
Published: 30 Jan 2022
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Imprint: Wharncliffe
Publisher: Wharncliffe
Format: Paperback
Height: 234mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 208

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