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
The military use of railways derives from their ability to move troops or material rapidly and, less commonly, on their use as a platform for military systems (
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