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How the Railways Transformed the World
The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama t...
How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in whi...
Christian Wolmar's Railway Library
Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival o...
The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail 'Wolmar's book is impeccably organised and makes a fast...
How the Age of Steam Transformed India
The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian. 'Christian Wolmar is Britai...
A fascinating journey through the history of railways, includes first-hand accounts of innovation, triumph, and tragedy. From the earliest steam engin...
How the Railways Transformed Britain
The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britai...
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain's bestselling railway writer. Crossrail, first conceived just after the S...
Wolmar's entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of...
The Untold Story of How American Engineering and Ingenuity Won World War II
The epic story of the engineers and rail workers who ensured Allied victory in World War Two, published to coincide with the eightieth anniversary of ...
How the London Underground was Built and how it Changed the City Forever
Since Victorian times, London's Underground has made an extraordinary contribution to the economy of the capital and has played a vital role in the da...
An Illustrated History of the Railroad
A history of railroads throughout the world, including the engineering involved, the construction, the social change behind the history of trains, fam...
The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway, stretching nearly 6000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok is the world's longest railway line, and was one of the most a...
The Illustrated History of Railways
A fascinating journey through the history of railways From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, The Iron Road tells the hi...
"Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of con...
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of t...
Why Britain Has No Transport Policy
Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads o...
The Last Untold Story of the Normandy Landings
'A masterful account of the unsung heroes of the battle for Normandy. Without the valiant efforts of the British and American railwaymen, the liberati...
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During the second half of the nineteenth century, the plans for British Empire expansion knew no bounds and landscapes around the world were forever c...
The Battle for London's Underground
Reforming the London Underground has become a massive political issue. Christian Wolmar examines government policy past and present, and presents a bl...
The Rise and Fall of the Municipal Left
How Privatisation Wrecked Britain's Railways
Christian Wolmar, one of the UK's leading transport journalists, analyzes the troubled history of Britain's railways, reveals how they have reached th...
How London's Great Stations Were Built – And How They Transformed the City
'Fascinating' 'Books of the Year', Financial Times 'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age... Wolmar brings th...
Key to a New Transport Policy
A Classic Rags-to-riches Tale from the Frontiers of Capitalism
The rise and rise of Stagecoach is an emblematic rags-to-riches story of the Conservative era of the 1980s and 1990s. This book tells the story of how...
The Secret Abuse Scandal in Children's Homes
For almost 20 years, thousands of children taken into care by local authorities in Britain were abused by those charged with looking after them. This ...
Squatters and the Law
Road, air, rail, water, initiatives....