Engines of War: How Wars Were Won & Lost on the Railways - Hardcover

Wolmar, Christian

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1586489712 ISBN 13: 9781586489717

Verlag: PublicAffairs,U.S., 2010

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Book by Wolmar Christian

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Publishers Weekly "Wolmar writes with an authoritative tone and solid research on how railroads, with their ability to move vast numbers of troops, made "industrial-scale carnage possible." Library Journal "Very accessible and likely to be popular with readers of general military history."

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Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of conflict. But with the birth of the railroad in the early 1830s, the way wars were fought would change forever. In Engines of War, renowned expert Christian Wolmar tells the story of that transformation, examining all the engagements in which railways played a part from the Crimean War and American Civil War through both world wars, the Korean War, and the Cold War with its mysterious missile trains. He shows that the 'iron road' not only made armies far more mobile, but also greatly increased the scale and power of available weaponry. Wars began to be fought across wider fronts and over longer timescales, with far deadlier consequences. From armored engines with their swiveling guns to track sabotage by way of dynamite, railway lines constructed across frozen Siberian lakes and a Boer war ambush involving Winston Churchill, Engines of War shows how the railways - a fantastic generator of wealth in peacetime - became a weapon of war exploited to the full by governments across the world.

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• Verlag: PublicAffairs,U.S.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1586489712
• ISBN 13: 9781586489717
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368