Trains to the Trenches
Subtitle: The Men, Locomotives and Tracks That Took the Armies to War 1914-18
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group UK
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9781781313664
Subjects: Railroad travel; World war, 1914-1918, transportation; Railroads, europe; Railroads, history
Description: WORLD HISTORY: FIRST WORLD WAR. Without the railways for the Great Powers, the most terrible conflict the world has ever known would have taken a very different form - 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.