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Author : British Railways Press Office
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book British Railways in Peace and War written by British Railways Press Office and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Culpin
Publisher : Hodder Education
ISBN 13 : 1471861090
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (718 download)
Download or read book OCR GCSE History SHP: Britain in Peace and War 1900-1918 written by Christopher Culpin and published by Hodder Education. This book was released on 2017-04-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exam board: OCR (Specification B, SHP) Level: GCSE (9-1) Subject: History First teaching: September 2016 First exams: Summer 2018 An OCR endorsed textbook Let SHP successfully steer you through the OCR B specification with an exciting, enquiry-based series, combining best practice teaching methods and worthwhile tasks to develop students' historical knowledge and skills. B” Tackle unfamiliar topics with confidence: /BThe engaging, accessible text covers the content you need for teacher-led lessons and independent studybrbrB” Ease the transition to GCSE: /BStep-by-step enquiries inspired by best practice in KS3 help to simplify lesson planning and ensure continuous progression within and across unitsbrbrB” Build the knowledge and understanding that students need to succeed: /BThe scaffolded three-part task structure enables students to record, reflect on and review their learningbrbrB” Boost student performance: /BSuitably challenging tasks encourage high achievers to excel at GCSE while clear explanations make key concepts accessible to allbrbrB” Rediscover your enthusiasm for source work:
Author : Derek H. Aldcroft
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349007080
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (49 download)
Download or read book British Railways in Transition written by Derek H. Aldcroft and published by Springer. This book was released on 1968-06-18 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jeremy Higgins
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1910500097
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (15 download)
Download or read book Great War Railwaymen written by Jeremy Higgins and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2015-09-03 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The railways were intrinsic to fighting the First World War, whether at home or abroad. On the Western Front and beyond trains ferried men and supplies to and from the front on a staggering scale, ensuring that the war machine functioned without pause. Back in Britain, the railway network shipped millions of tonnes of war material from the factories to the ports, becoming the lifeblood of the war effort. Great War Railwaymen details this incredible achievement, exploring not only the vast infrastructure, but also those who operated it. Despite the importance of the railways, many of those involved in the industry went off to fight in the mud and trenches, on the world's oceans, or in the skies above war torn Europe. Between them, they were awarded 2500 Military medals, 44 Distinguished Conduct Medals, 27 Military Crosses and 6 Victoria Crosses. This is their story. Meticulously researched and lovingly produced, Jeremy Higgins narrates the fascinating stories of over a thousand of these men, vividly capturing their wartime experiences and pressing home the vital importance of the railways, and those that ran them, to the Allied victory in the First World War.
Author : Edwin A. Pratt
Publisher : Dalcassian Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book British railways and the great war ; organisation, efforts, difficulties and achievements written by Edwin A. Pratt and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1921-01-01 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Maurice W Kirby
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 1783261323
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)
Download or read book Operational Research In War And Peace: The British Experience From The 1930s To 1970 written by Maurice W Kirby and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2003-06-18 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first of two projected volumes on the history of operational research (OR) in Britain commissioned by the UK Operational Research Society. Based upon a vast array of published and unpublished sources, the book provides an original account of the discipline's pre-war and wartime origins. This serves as a prelude to a wide-ranging analysis of the diffusion of OR into the public and private sectors after 1945. The chapters on the role of OR in iron and steel and coalmining, and its rapid adoption in the UK corporate sector after 1960, will be of particular interest to practitioners. The book also analyses and explains the diffusion of OR into local and central government and provides an informed commentary on the origins and subsequent history of the OR Society. Professor Kirby has related the development of OR in the UK to contemporary developments in the USA. The book concludes with a resume of the post-1970 debates concerning the future trajectory of OR.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1116 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)
Download or read book Truth written by and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 1116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Peace Handbooks: China, Japan, Siam, no. 67-74 written by Great Britain. Foreign Office. Historical Section and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Di Drummond
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1844686701
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (446 download)
Download or read book Tracing Your Railway Ancestors written by Di Drummond and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2010-06-15 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Di Drummond's concise and informative guide to Britain's railways will be absorbing reading for anyone who wants to learn about the history of the industry and for family history researchers who want to find out about the careers of their railway ancestors. In a clear and accessible way she guides readers through the social, technical and economic aspects of the story. She describes in vivid detail the rapid growth, maturity and long decline of the railways from the earliest days in the late-eighteenth century to privatization in the 1990s. In the process she covers the themes and issues that family historians, local historians and railway enthusiasts will need to understand in order to pursue their research. A sequence of short, fact-filled chapters gives an all-round view of the development of the railwaysIn addition to tracing the birth and growth of the original railway companies, she portrays the types of work that railwaymen did and pays particular attention to the railway world in which they spent their working lives. The tasks they undertook, the special skills they had to learn, the conditions they worked in, the organization and hierarchy of the railway companies, and the make-up of railway unions - all these elements in the history of the railways are covered. She also introduces the reader to the variety of records that are available for genealogical research - staff records and registers, publications, census returns, biographies and autobiographies, and the rest of the extensive literature devoted to the railway industry.
Author : Lorna Frost
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0747811148
Total Pages : 65 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (478 download)
Download or read book Railway Posters written by Lorna Frost and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2012-07-20 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Railway posters have huge appeal for the modern audience, but just what explains this continuing interest? Enduring images of iconic locomotives, bathing beauties and characters such as Sunny South Sam are testament to the creativity of the railway company marketing departments and the posters tell us not only about railway history and technology, architectural and engineering accomplishments, but also about the cultural and social significance of the railways. The influence of the railway industry on our cities and coastlines, and on the development of leisure time and holiday resorts, can be seen in the recurring images of ramblers, bathers and idyllic tourist destinations. This book explores the changing styles and functions of the railway poster from the early pre-grouping days through to the inter-war 'golden age' and nationalised British Railways.
Author : British Railways Press Office
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book "It Can Now be Revealed," written by British Railways Press Office and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Hew Strachan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316515494
Total Pages : 707 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (165 download)
Download or read book The British Home Front and the First World War written by Hew Strachan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 707 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest account yet of the British home front in the First World War and how war changed Britain forever.
Author : Nick Robins
Publisher : Seaforth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1399009613
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book From War to Peace written by Nick Robins and published by Seaforth Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From War to Peace tells the story of the adaptation from White Ensign to Red Ensign, and to flags of other nations, of the numerous classes of naval ships mainly built during the two world wars and surplus to requirements with the advent of peace. It also describes ships sourced from the United States Navy and elsewhere that were converted for commercial use. The most successful classes to transfer to the merchant service were the Hunt-class minesweepers of the Great War, Landing Craft, Tank, the salvage tugs of World War Two, and the wooden-hulled Fairmile launches which became familiar at seaside resorts in the 1950s and ‘60s; and, of course, the MFV classes that helped the fishing industry in the postwar years. The story includes the successful commercial conversions of many of the Flower and Castle Class corvettes and River Class frigates, notably the 1954 conversion of HMCS Stormont to a luxury yacht for the Greek shipping magnate Onassis. It describes why HMS Charybdis became a passenger liner in the Great War, and how HMS Albatross nearly became a luxury liner after World War Two, but in fact was transformed into a very unpopular emigrant ship and ended her days as a floating casino based at Cape Town. The author reveals the military antecedents of numerous commercial vessels that many would have thought were built especially for the service that they later maintained, and it illustrates just how many Royal Navy vessels ended up in private ownership. And the question is asked: if the military had not built so many ships that were eminently suitable for commercial adaptation, would the technical development of merchant shipping have progressed at a faster rate than it did? The answer is a definite ‘no’, and is illustrated in several ways. It was former naval vessels that promoted the early development of the Ro-Ro ferry; former naval ships introduced numerous design innovations, for example, the raised foredeck common for so many years on salvage tugs, and, above all, stripped of their military hardware, ex naval ships provided opportunities for modest investment where otherwise there would have been none. Copiously illustrated throughout, the book tells a fascinating story of invention and ingenious ship conversion, and of pragmatic adaptation in the financially stringent years after two world wars.
Author : Graeme Gleaves
Publisher : Pen and Sword Transport
ISBN 13 : 1399095129
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (99 download)
Download or read book The Railways of the Isle of Sheppey written by Graeme Gleaves and published by Pen and Sword Transport. This book was released on 2024-07-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Isle of Sheppey sits just off the north coast of Kent, where the Medway and Thames estuaries flow into the North Sea. Over centuries this was a place that was home to farmland, castles, a dock yard, an air station, industrial installations, calm beaches and a population of islanders who have taken a pride in their home. To serve the needs of all of this a small railway network was built up and even an urban tram network. Included in this was a fixed link that was the first to ever link the island to the mainland. From 1860 the network grew as the importance of the island grew. Continental boat passengers, dockyard workmen and day trippers, they were all carried on the trains and trams that shuttled about to, from and across the flat terrain of this often overlooked island. Being an island can create its own unique set of challenges and the railways on the island were certainly challenged by misfortune and circumstances, but the little network kept going until economics got the better of it and from there on it becomes a story of contractions and closure. The Island can still boast a railway today but it is far removed from the story of its past. This work seeks to tell the story of the railways on the island, how they came to be built, how they were run and how times changed over the following decades.
Author : Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Bulletin of Additions to the Libraries, Classified, Annotated and Indexed... written by Glasgow (Scotland). Public Libraries and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Herbert Wrigley Wilson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 576 pages
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Download or read book The Great War written by Herbert Wrigley Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Egnell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134009348
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Complex Peace Operations and Civil-Military Relations written by Robert Egnell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-13 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the impact of different civil-military structures on operational effectiveness in complex peace operations. Recent operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia are examples of grand failures to enforce peace and to promote democracy and development through international interventions. A missing variable in analyses of these conflicts hitherto has been the nature of the civil-military interface and its impact. The principal argument of this book is that the civil-military interface should ideally be integrated within the interagency arena as well as within the defence ministry. Such integration has the potential to provide joint civil-military planning and comprehensive approaches to operations. It also creates mutual trust and understanding amongst officers and civil servants from different departments, agencies and units, and thereby, a co-operative interagency culture. For the civil-military interface to function effectively within the chain of command during operations, a co-operative culture of trust is essential. Crucially, structurally and culturally integrated civil-military structures are likely to provide a more balanced view of the functional imperative of the armed forces. The results are armed forces fit for whatever purpose the political leadership decides for them - including complex peace support operations. Empirically, the book applies the theoretical framework to a comparative study of US and British patterns of civil-military relations, their strategic cultures and their operations in Iraq. This book will be of much interest to students of peace operations, civil-military relations, humanitarian intervention, and security studies/IR in general. Robert Egnell is a lecturer in War Studies at the Swedish National Defence College and a senior researcher at the Swedish Defence Research Agency. He was awarded the 2008 Kenneth N. Waltz Dissertation Prize for the best thesis in the field of international security.
