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The Liberation Line
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…
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To the Edge of the World
To the Edge of the World is an adventure in travel -- full of extraordinary personalities, more than a century of explosive political, economic, and…
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The Great Railroad Revolution
“A sweeping history of railroads in America” (New Yorker) By the early 1900s, the United States was covered in a lattice-work of more than 200,000…
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Engines of War
The birth of the railway in the early 1830's revolutionized the way the world waged war. From armored engines with swiveling guns, to the practice…
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Blood, Iron, and Gold
The opening of the world's first railroad in Britain and America in 1830 marked the dawn of a new age. Within the course of a…