The Peaky Blinders as we realize them, because of the hit TV series, are infused with dilemma and dread. Fashionably dressed, the charismatic but deeply flawed Shelby family blind enemies by slashing them with the throw-away safety razor blades stitched in to the peaks of their toned caps, as they fight bloody gangland wars involving Irish terrorists as well as the specialists led by a devious Home Secretary, Winston Churchill.

But who were the true Peaky Blinders? Do they really exist?

Well-known cultural about Peaky Blinders: The Real Story: The new accurate background of Birmingham’s most notorious gangs historian, broadcaster and author, Carl Chinn, offers spent decades searching them out. Right now he reveals the true story from the notorious Peaky Blinders, one of whom was his own great grandfather and, like the Shelbys, his grandfather was an unlawful bookmaker in back-street Birmingham.

With this gripping social background, Chinn shines a light within the seldom reported struggles from the functioning class in one of the great towns from the British Empire before the First World War. The story continues after 1918 as some Peaky Blinders changed in to the infamous Birmingham Gang. Led by the true Billy Kimber, they fought a bloody war with the London gangsters Darby Sabini and Alfie Solomon over useful protection rackets extorting cash from bookmakers over the flourishing postwar racecourses of Britain.

Drawing together an amazingly wide-range of original sources, including interviews with relatives of the 1920s gangsters, Peaky Blinders: THE TRUE Story adds a fresh dimension to the real background of Birmingham’s underworld and fact behind its fiction.