Men of Steam: Railwaymen in Their Own Words
Wharncliffe Books (Verlag)
978-1-84563-133-8 (ISBN)
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They could spend their entire careers advancing step by step through the industry, from engine cleaner to fireman to driver, and from working on a shunter to operating a famous named express.Fortunately for us, the railwaymen of that time shared their experiences with one another through their employee magazinesand their books, so they have left behind them a fascinating record of their work, their attitudes and concerns. The observations, eyewitness accounts, operating procedures, complaints, anecdotes, and simple descriptions of the long-lost daily routines of the steam railway are the raw material for David Wragg's remarkable book.
David Wragg has published several highly praised books on railway history, and he produced a textbook for the old Chartered Institute of Transport. He has also written on railways for the Sunday Telegraph, The Spectator, The Scotsman, and the Yorkshire Post. His Wartime on the Railways was reviewed by Rail as 'very readable' and by Railways Illustrated as 'as a fascinating insight and also an important record', and Railways Illustrated chose his Southern Railway Handbook as 'Book of the Month'. One of his most recent publications is The Historical Dictionary of Railways in the British Isles. He is also well known as a writer of military history and provide the British, Australian, Canadian and New Zealand material for On Seas Contested- The Seven Great Navies of the Second World War, published in 2010 by the Naval Institute Press in the United States and which won the Stonebooks award for "The Best Non-Fiction book on World War II" to have been published that year.'
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.1.2012 |
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Zusatzinfo | 20 illustrations |
Verlagsort | Barnsley |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
Themenwelt | Natur / Technik ► Fahrzeuge / Flugzeuge / Schiffe ► Schienenfahrzeuge |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte | |
ISBN-10 | 1-84563-133-1 / 1845631331 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-84563-133-8 / 9781845631338 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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