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The Grand Crimean Central Railway

Autor Anthony Dawson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2019
The Crimean War, fought by the alliance of Great Britain, France, and the tiny Italian Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia alongside Turkey against Tsarist Russia, was the first 'modern' war, not only for its vast scale (France mobilised a million men) but also the technologies involved, from iron-clad battleships to rifled artillery, the electric telegraph and steam. Best known for the blunder of the Charge of the Light Brigade, the fearful conditions in the trenches at the front, and the quiet heroism of Florence Nightingale, the Crimean War saw the railway go to war for the first time. The Grand Crimean Central Railway was the brainchild of two Victorian railway magnates, Samuel Morton Peto and Thomas Brassey; in order to alleviate the suffering at the front, they volunteered to build at cost a steam railway linking the Allied camps at Sevastopol to their supply base at Balaclava. In the face of much official opposition, the railway was built and operational in a matter of months, supplying hundreds of tons of food, clothing and materiel to the starving and freezing men in their trenches. Largely worked by civilian auxiliaries, the Grand Crimean Central Railway saw the railway transformed into a war-winning weapon, saving countless thousands of lives as it did so.
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ISBN-13: 9781445671048
ISBN-10: 1445671042
Pagini: 96
Ilustrații: 100 Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensiuni: 162 x 230 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.32 kg
Editura: Amberley Publishing

Notă biografică

Anthony is an archaeologist and early railway historian who has authored many books for Amberley. He has also written several monographs on the Liverpool & Manchester Railway for Pen & Sword Transport. He is a member of the Railway & Canal Historical Society, the Newcomen Society and is a Director of the Liverpool & Manchester Railway Trust. He is also a member of the International Early Railways Conference committee and the 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group. He has appeared on several TV programmes including Secret History of the Railways and Time Team.

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Anthony Dawson explores the history of the world's first wartime railway.