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Author : James Alward Van Fleet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Rail Transport and the Winning of Wars written by James Alward Van Fleet and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : PublicAffairs
ISBN 13 : 1586489720
Total Pages : 739 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (864 download)
Download or read book Engines of War written by Christian Wolmar and published by PublicAffairs. This book was released on 2010-11-02 with total page 739 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The birth of the railway in the early 1830's revolutionized the way the world waged war. From armored engines with swiveling guns, to the practice of track sabotage, to the construction of tracks that crossed frozen Siberian lakes, the "iron road" facilitated conflict on a scale that was previously unimaginable. It not only made armies more mobile, but widened fighting fronts and increased the power and scale of available weaponry; a deadly combination. In Engines of War, Christian Wolmar examines all the engagements in which the railway played a part: the Crimean War; the American Civil War; both world wars; the Korean War; and the Cold War, with its mysterious missile trains; and illustrates how the railway became a deadly weapon exploited by governments across the world.
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher : Public Affairs
ISBN 13 : 1610390563
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (13 download)
Download or read book Engines of War written by Christian Wolmar and published by Public Affairs. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic 100-year history of how trains became weapons, and transformed forever the nature of war
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Rail-power in War and Conquest, 1833-1914 written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Donald J. Heimburger
Publisher : Heimburger House Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9780911581607
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Trains to Victory written by Donald J. Heimburger and published by Heimburger House Publishing Company. This book was released on 2009-07-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trains to Victory tells the dramatic story of the years 1941-1945 when U.S. railroads, using fewer cars and locomotives than in WWI, moved more tonnage and more passengers than ever before. Divided into 13 chapters, plus a 32-page four-color section, an introduction, bibliography and a complete index, the volume appeals to railfans, historians, military historians, and many others. The 380-page hardbound book features 542 photographs, an additional 285 illustrations, a four-color laminated dustjacket and a complete listing of U.S. military camps, posts and bases as of August 1, 1941. The book discusses the implications of the war on the railroads, embarkation of troops and materiels, how the Military Railway Service joined the fight and what was happening on U.S railroads during the war. It also addresses new railroad cars and locomotives built for the war, military camp railroads, how Alaska’s railroads played a part in the conflict, how women helped the war effort, and what was happening in foreign theaters. It describes how railroads aided in the return of wounded troops and equipment, and the atmosphere on the railroads immediately after the war. Scale drawings of war-emergency box cars are also included, as are troop train car plans. Trains to Victory covers such topics as the huge Chicago & NorthWestern Proviso Yards during wartime, personal glimpses of the war from a number of railroaders and intriguing aspects of the war from the Army Engineers, Association of American Railroads and the War Department. Wartime products of locomotive and railroad car manufacturers such as Baldwin, Alco, Davenport, Lima, Whitcomb, Budd, Electro-Motive, H.K. Porter, Pullman, American Car & Foundry and the St. Louis Car Company are documented throughout the volume. Hardbound, 8½ x11", 380 pages, 825 photos and illustrations, 32-page all-color photo section, 13 chapters, extensive historical military/railroad documentation.
Author : Thomas Weber
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1786254395
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (862 download)
Download or read book The Northern Railroads In The Civil War, 1861-1865 written by Thomas Weber and published by Pickle Partners Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-06 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Time has been very good to Thomas Weber’s Northern Railroads in the Civil War, 1861-1865. First published by Columbia University Press in 1952, it has been out of print since the 1970s, but never out of demand. It has emerged as the premier account of the impact of the railroads on the American Civil War and vice versa. Not only did the railroads materially help the north to victory through movement of troops and materiel, but the war materially changed the way railroads were built, run, financed, and organized in the crucial years following the war.”-Print ed. “...eminently worthy of study by those interested in either railroads or the Civil War.” - Robert Selph Henry, New York Times Book Review “Thomas Weber’s study of northern railroads during the Civil War remains the obvious treatment of an important topic. His analysis rests on solid research and leaves no doubt that the North’s excellent use of railroads contributed significantly to Union victory.”—Gary W. Gallagher “Thomas Weber’s... analysis rests on solid research and leaves no doubt that the North’s excellent use of railroads contributed significantly to Union victory.”—Gary W. Gallagher
Author : Christian Wolmar
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780857895769
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (957 download)
Download or read book Engines of War written by Christian Wolmar and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how railways have shaped how wars were fought and won, facilitating conflict on a previously unimaginable scale.
Author : George Edgar Turner
Publisher : Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Victory Rode the Rails written by George Edgar Turner and published by Indianapolis : Bobbs-Merrill. This book was released on 1953 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John E. Clark, Jr.
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 080713015X
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Railroads in the Civil War written by John E. Clark, Jr. and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2004-10-01 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By the time of the Civil War, the railroads had advanced to allow the movement of large numbers of troops even though railways had not yet matured into a truly integrated transportation system. Gaps between lines, incompatible track gauges, and other vexing impediments remained in both the North and South. As John E. Clark explains in this compelling study, the skill with which Union and Confederate war leaders met those problems and utilized the rail system to its fullest potential was an essential ingredient for ultimate victory.
Author : Frank Haigh Dixon
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book War Administration of the Railways in the United States and Great Britain written by Frank Haigh Dixon and published by New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1918 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781330845592
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (455 download)
Download or read book The Rise of Rail-Power written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-06 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Rise of Rail-Power: In War and Conquest, 1833 1914; With a Bibliography The extent to which railways are being used in the present War of the Nations has taken quite by surprise a world whose military historians, in their accounts of what armies have done or have failed to do on the battle-field in the past, have too often disregarded such matters of detail as to how the armies got there and the possible effect of good or defective transport conditions, including the maintenance of supplies and communications, on the whole course of a campaign. In the gigantic struggle now proceeding, these matters of detail are found to be of transcendant importance. The part which railways are playing in the struggle has, indeed - in keeping with the magnitude of the struggle itself - assumed proportions unexampled in history. Whilst this is so it is, nevertheless, a remarkable fact that although much has been said as to the conditions of military unpreparedness in which the outbreak of hostilities in August, 1914, found the Allies, there has, so far as I am aware, been no suggestion of any inability on the part of the railways to meet, at once, from the very moment war was declared, all the requirements of military transport. In this respect, indeed, the organisation, the preparedness, and the efficiency throughout alike of the British and of the French railways have been fully equal to those of the German railways themselves. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Michael Williams
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1409051897
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Steaming to Victory written by Michael Williams and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-05-16 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined from every perspective of military and social history. But there is a story that has hitherto been largely overlooked. It is a tale of quiet heroism, a story of ordinary people who fought, with enormous self-sacrifice, not with tanks and guns, but with elbow grease and determination. It is the story of the British railways and, above all, the extraordinary men and women who kept them running from 1939 to 1945. Churchill himself certainly did not underestimate their importance to the wartime story when, in 1943, he praised ‘the unwavering courage and constant resourcefulness of railwaymen of all ranks in contributing so largely towards the final victory.’ And what a story it is. The railway system during the Second World War was the lifeline of the nation, replacing vulnerable road transport and merchant shipping. The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of transport failed. Railwaymen and women performed outstanding acts of heroism. Nearly 400 workers were killed at their posts and another 2,400 injured in the line of duty. Another 3,500 railwaymen and women died in action. The trains themselves played just as vital a role. The famous Flying Scotsman train delivered its passengers to safety after being pounded by German bombers and strafed with gunfire from the air. There were astonishing feats of engineering restoring tracks within hours and bridges and viaducts within days. Trains transported millions to and from work each day and sheltered them on underground platforms at night, a refuge from the bombs above. Without the railways, there would have been no Dunkirk evacuation and no D-Day. Michael Williams, author of the celebrated book On the Slow Train, has written an important and timely book using original research and over a hundred new personal interviews. This is their story.
Author : Roy Horniman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book How to Make the Railways Pay for the War written by Roy Horniman and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George B. Abdill
Publisher : New York : Bonanza Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Civil War Railroads written by George B. Abdill and published by New York : Bonanza Books. This book was released on 1961 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: True story of railroads and men in the Civil War.
Author : Denis Bishop
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780713707038
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Railways and War Before 1918 written by Denis Bishop and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaiah Leo Sharfman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The American Railroad Problem written by Isaiah Leo Sharfman and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
