In the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways, the most challenging years were those of the two World Wars, when they were needed the most. Transporta
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
From the American Civil War onwards, railways have been an important aspect of war. So important were the railways that in the First World War, the state took c
The strategic importance of railways was recognized almost from the beginning of their development, but it was not until the end of the nineteenth century that