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Cathedrals of Steam: How London's Great Stations Were Built - and How They Transformed the City by Christian Wolmar
55.00 NZD
Category: History
'A wonderful tour, full of vivid incident and surprising detail.' Simon BradleyLondon hosts twelve major railway stations, more than any other city in the world. They range from the grand and palatial, such as King's Cross and Paddington, to the modest and lesser known, such as Fenchurch Street and Cann ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
50.00 NZD
Category: Military
This is a Christmas hardback 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. Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
30.00 NZD
Category: History
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 ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
33.00 NZD
Category: Travel | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
60.00 NZD
Category: History
In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termin ...Show more
To the Edge of the World - The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
50.00 NZD
55.00 (9% off)
Category: Non-fiction
It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through ...Show more
To the Edge of the World: The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway by Christian Wolmar
30.00 NZD
Category: History
Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial role the line played in both the Russian Civil War ...Show more
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