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Publisher
PublicAffairs
Language
English
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Description
America was made by the railroads. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line — the first American railroad — in the 1830s sparked a national revolution in the way that people lived thanks to the speed and convenience of train travel. Promoted by visionaries and built through heroic effort, the American railroad network was bigger in every sense than Europe's, and facilitated everything from long-distance travel to commuting and transporting goods...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 313 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Explains how the birth of the railroad forever changed how wars were fought, from the Crimean War and American Civil War through both world wars, the Korean War, and the Cold War and its mysterious missile trains.
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