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New York: Public Affairs, 2010. Book. Very Good. Hardcover. First Edition. 8 vo,. cloth, xxxvi, 312 pages : illustrations, CONTENTS: War before railways -- The railways called into action -- Slavery loses out to the Iron Road -- Lessons not learnt -- The war the world anticipated -- The great railway war on the Western Front -- Eastern contrasts -- Here we go again -- Blood on the tracks. Explains how the birth of the railroad forever changed how wars were fought, from the Crimean War and American Civil War through both world wars, the Korean War, and the Cold War and its mysterious missile trains 3 line ink notation on front endpaper, else, a v.g. copy in v.g. .d.j..
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- Title Engines of War: How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways
- Author Christian Wolmar
- Binding Open Ebook
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher PublicAffairs
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- ISBN 9781586489724 / 1586489720
- Dewey Decimal Code 623.63
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