Steaming to Victory. How Britain's Railways Won the War, Paperback - Michael Williams

The railways mobilised troops, transported munitions, evacuated children from cities and kept vital food supplies moving where other forms of trans...

With exclusive interviews, a Signal Corps veteran tells the full story of how cryptography helped defeat the Axis powers, at Bletchley Park and bey...

The First World War was to lead to the first major step in Britain's railways becoming a unified system.Illustrations: 116 black and white illustra...

About the AuthorBruce L. Brager, a graduate of George Washington University, is a writer who has ghostwritten dozens of books and published numerou...

Reducere. Great cyclists are born, but winning cyclists are made by the brains of their managers. The craft of racing requires a non-stop obsession with deta...

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Reducere. Description"The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril, " wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history ...

Essential guide to Devon's railway heritage

The latest volume in this series that focuses on recent developments on Britain's rail network in Cumbria. This photographic collection looks at th...

New B-format paperback - Explore a highly illustrated and comprehensive look at the story of 400 years of Britain's railways.Illustrations: 32 Plat...

Reducere. Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers...

Publisher: Ronsdale PressAuthor(s): Doris GregoryIllustration(s): 40 b/w photosNumber of pages: 220Publication date: 2014Dimensions: 230 x 154 x 14...

A nostalgic overview of the rail scene in the 1970s. The photographs in this book try to capture a flavour of the railways during this fascinating ...

A concise, accessible account of strategy and the Second World War. How the war was won . . . and lost..

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Delving behind the headlines of history, this book showcases twenty brave Americans who showed exceptional leadership in the Spanish-American War, ...

Reducere. "How They Won the War in the Pacific" provides a fascinating look at Naval Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and his subordinate leaders--fighting men unde...

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Reducere. 2014 Amelia Bloomer Top Ten ListDouble Victory tells the stories of African American women who did extraordinary things to help their country durin...

Reducere. Recalls the group of scientists whose invention of radar during World War II contributed to the Allied victory, and chronicles their post-war achie...

Reducere. The War I Finally Won is the 2nd book in The War That Saved My Life Series. A New York Times bestseller like the classic heroines of Sarah, Plain a...

Reducere. A brilliant evocation of the post-Civil War era by the acclaimed author of Patriots and Union 1812. After Lincoln tells the story of the Reconstruc...

Reducere. Now in paperback--the award-winning National Geographic book that presents the untold story of the invisible war behind the American Revolution. A ...

Publisher: St Martin's PressAuthor(s): Chris DeRoseIllustration(s): Plus one 16-page black-and-white photograph insertNumber of pages: 352Publicati...

Presents a new history of the Dawlish railway, which was devastated by storms in February 2014, and immediately rebuilt. With a huge selection of p...

Politics, academia & corporations now bow to the new orthodoxies around gender, race & identity. How Woke Won explores woke's intellectual roots an...

The perfect gift for every railway enthusiast. The history of Britain's railways is a long and fascinating one, filled with stories of grand endeav...

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A personal history of the bygone age of Britain's railways, through 16 journeys. Tells the tales of the pioneers who built the tracks, the yarns of...

DescriptionA personal account of the courageous men of an Army Combat Engineer Battalion during our most unpopular war. They faced constant danger ...

Reducere. "Masterly. . . . A triumph of vivid description, telling anecdotes, and informed analysis." --The New York Review of Books "Britain's finest contem...

When the Continental Congress decided to declare independence from the British empire in 1776, ten percent of the population of their fledgling cou...