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Engines of War - Christian Wolmar
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Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of con?ict. But the birth of the railway in the early 1830s changed everything and wrote a new act into the theater of war. Christian Wolmar?s Engines of War spans more than a century and takes in all the engagements in which the railway played a part: the Crimean War; the American Civil War; both world wars; the Korean War; and the Cold War, with its myste- rious missile trains. It shows how the ?ir0n road? increased the mobility of armies and the scale and power of available weaponry. From armored engines with swiveling guns, to the practice of track sabotage, to the construction of tracks that crossed frozen Siberian lakes, the railway restruc- tured how the world waged war. It widened ?ghting fronts, extended the length of war, and facilitated con?ict on a scale that was previously unimaginable. Engines of War is Christian Wolmar?s most ambitious and original book yet. It con?rms his reputation as a leading transport historian and demonstrates how the railway?a fantastic gen- erator of wealth in peacetime?became an ef?cient killing machine of modern warfare.
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