Trains to the Trenches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Trains to the Trenches write by Andrew Roden. This book was released on 2014-10-31. Trains to the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How Would the railways of today - across Germany, Belgium, France, Britain, Austria, and all other combatants - fare if they were faced with the challenges their counterparts a century earlier were? Without the railways for the Great Powers, the most terrible conflict the world has ever known would have taken a very different form รข?? if it had happened at all. In a remarkable historical railway journey through Britain and Europe, author Andrew Roden tells the story of the men and women who manned the tracks and the trains, and who relied on them to get them to battle and back home again. Drawing on diaries, memoirs and archive material he reveals the personal stories of ordinary people doing extraordinary things, and pays tribute to their overlooked contribution. Supported with remarkable illustrations and photography, Roden interweaves memories of his own present day travels by train with diary excerpts of ambulance train nurses, returning POWs, drivers that put their lives in danger for everyone on board and other key voices. Roden takes the reader on a gripping journey, from the secret planning rooms in Berlin, through to the killing fields of the trenches, as well as the home fronts of the key combatants. Looking at defining moments of railway history on both sides of the Great War they build a unique and very human picture of a wartime railway across Europe.
Tracks to the Trenches
Tracks to the Trenches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracks to the Trenches write by David R. P. Guay. This book was released on 2017. Tracks to the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Tracks to the Trenches is a photographic history of the role that Canadian soldiers and railroad men played in the construction of rail lines to the Allied front during World War I."--
A Light Beyond the Trenches
A Light Beyond the Trenches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Light Beyond the Trenches write by Alan Hlad. This book was released on 2022-03-29. A Light Beyond the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A German Red Cross nurse joins the world's first guide dog training school for the blind and begins a quest to show a Jewish pianist who was blinded on the battlefield that life is worth living"--
The Great Western Railway in the First World War
The Great Western Railway in the First World War - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Great Western Railway in the First World War write by Sandra Gittins. This book was released on 2010-08-16. The Great Western Railway in the First World War available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In August 1914 the GWR was plunged into war, the like of which this country had never experienced before. Over the years that followed life changed beyond measure, both for the men sent away to fight and the women who took on new roles at home. Not since 1922 has the history of the GWR in the First World War been recorded in a single volume. Using modern data-bases and enjoying greater access to archives, Sandra Gittins has been able to produce a complete history which traces the GWR from the early, optimistic days through the subsequent difficult years of the Great War, including Government demands for war manufacture, increased traffic and the tragic loss of staff. From GWR ships and ambulance trains to the employment of women, every part of the story is told, including the saddest of all, which is represented by a Roll of Honour.
Tracks to the Trenches
Tracks to the Trenches - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Tracks to the Trenches write by Moseley Railway Trust. This book was released on 2020-06-30. Tracks to the Trenches available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Moseley Railway Trust, at its Apedale Valley Light Railway base in Staffordshire, has amassed a collection of narrow gauge railway equipment that is unique in the UK, and of national significance. As part of the World War One commemorations, the Trust put on three hugely successful 'Tracks to the Trenches' events, each with a different theme, in 2014, 2016 and 2018. This fully illustrated album is a collection of images from all three events, and provides unique coverage of not just the collection, but the outstanding dioramas recreated by the visiting re-enactors.
