{"product_id":"to-rob-a-bank-is-an-honor","title":"To Rob a Bank Is an Honor","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFor the first time in English, the autobiography of the revolutionary outlaw who brought Citibank to its knees.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1981, Lucio Urtubia received a suitcase full of cash from Citibank executives, handed over the plates he'd used to forge 20 million dollars in traveler's checks, and walked away a free man. This is the true story of the most famous Robin Hood of the twentieth century, a lifelong anarchist who robbed from the rich to give to liberation struggles the world round.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn to a poor family in the Basque Country, Urtubia was conscripted into Franco's army before fleeing to exile in Paris, where he worked as a mason by day and collaborated with Catalonian anarchists by night. Soon, he was planning bank heists to fund the Spanish struggle, stealing weapons, and masterminding the escape of resistance fighters. Following the uprisings of May 1968, Urtubia opened a printshop, producing political pamphlets while secretly counterfeiting passports and workers' paychecks--until he hit on the scheme that would make him infamous. \"He who robs a thief is a thousand times forgiven!\" Urtubia declared. Over decades, he funneled support to such organizations as Italy's Red Brigades, the West German Baader-Meinhof group, the Black Panthers in the US, and the ETA Basque separatists.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTold with Urtubia's free-flowing warmth and humor, \u003ci\u003eTo Rob a Bank Is an Honor\u003c\/i\u003e narrates the life stories and political convictions of a larger-than-life figure at the center of an incendiary era.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Philip Ruff, Lucio Urturbia, Paul Sharkey","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46336886472940,"sku":"9781849355780","price":22.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0684\/1791\/3068\/files\/9781849355780.jpg?v=1743693560","url":"https:\/\/intl.allstora.com\/products\/to-rob-a-bank-is-an-honor","provider":"Allstora","version":"1.0","type":"link"}