About the book: 1966 / The Encyclopedia of Crimes and Disasters opens with the volume "Robberies and Thefts". The reader will be interested in getting acquainted with information not presented in any other similar anthologies. This volume of the book is dedicated to such manifestations of the underworld as banditry, robbery and theft. The reader is presented with a variety of material: from biographies of famous gangsters and descriptions of sensational robberies to cases of theft, existing at different levels (from state to everyday). Of particular interest will be pages that are missing from all foreign anthologies..