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Item Details
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ENGINES OF WAR
HOW WARS WERE WON AND LOST ON THE RAILWAYS |
| By: |
Christian Wolmar |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| List price:
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£16.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0857895761 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780857895769 |
| Publisher: |
ATLANTIC BOOKS |
| Pub. date: |
1 October, 2011 |
| Edition: |
Main |
| Pages: |
336 |
| Description: |
A Christmas paperback with tremendous sales potential. Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the birth of the railways shaped how wars were fought and won, facilitating conflict on a previously unimaginable scale. |
| Synopsis: |
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but also massively increased the power and the deadliness of the weaponry available to them. Christian Wolmar's epic account - of how an invention that brought prosperity in peace-time metamorphosed in time of war into a weapon of death - is counterpointed by a wealth of human stories of personal endeavour and private tragedy. Embracing every major conflict in which railways have played a part - the Crimean War, the American Civil War, the First and Second Boer Wars, the two World Wars, the Korean War and the Cold War, Engines of War is awe-inspiring tale of industrial might and the transformative power of machinery. |
| Illustrations: |
2x8 colour, 1x4 colour |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Atlantic Books |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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