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Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron and Gold describes the vision and determination of the pioneers who developed railways that would link cities ...Show more
Blood, Iron and Gold: How the Railways Transformed the World by Christian Wolmar
$60.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is a Christmas hardback with tremendous sales potential. "Blood, Iron and Gold" tells the dramatic story of the people and events that shaped the world's railways, stimulating economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale. The opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 ma ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
$40.00 NZD
Category: World History
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable scale. From the moment of its first appearance, the 'iron road' not only rendered armies more mobile, but ...Show more
Engines of War: How Wars Were Won and Lost on the Railways by Christian Wolmar
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is a Christmas hardback with tremendous sales potential. "Engines of War" tells the dramatic story of how the birth of the railways shaped how wars were fought and won, facilitating conflict on a previously unimaginable scale. Before the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable ...Show more
Railways by Christian Wolmar
$32.99 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general | Series: The\Landmark Library
From Britain's most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth century and their subsequent spread across every one of the world's continents acted as a spur for economi ...Show more
Railways and the Raj: How the Age of Steam Transformed India by Christian Wolmar
$28.00 NZD
Category: World History
India was the jewel in the crown of the British Empire. There were vast riches to be exploited and vast numbers of people to be subjugated. How better to achieve these aims than by building a rail network that facilitated the export of raw material and made it easier for troops to travel around the coun ...Show more
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
In The Great Railway Revolution, Christian Wolmar tells us the extraordinary one-hundred-and-eighty-year story of the rise, fall and ultimate shattering of the greatest of all American endeavours, of technological triumph and human tragedy, of visionary pioneers and venal and rapacious railway barons. H ...Show more
The Great Railway Revolution: The Epic Story of the American Railroad by Christian Wolmar
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction
In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would enmesh the vast country in a latticework of railroad lines, small-town stations and magisterial termin ...Show more
The Iron Road: The Illustrated History of Railways by Christian Wolmar
$50.00 NZD
Category: World History
This is a fascinating journey through the history of railways. From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, The Iron Road tells the hidden stories of railway history- the inspired engineering, blood, sweat and tears that went into the construction of the railways. Uncover the co ...Show more
The Subterranean Railway: How the London Underground Was Built and How it Changed the City Forever by Christian Wolmar
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and determination of the nineteenth-century pioneers who made the world's first, and still the largest, underground ...Show more
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