With the Great War (1914-18) Centennial beginning in 2014, this is
a comprehensive study of Prussian/German railways in peace and
strife, 1825-1918 -men, rails, lines, engines, cars, and stations.
They all played a crucial part in Germany's Wars of Unification
during 1864-71, the interwar years, and the final catastrophe that
toppled many crowns, thrones, and states, all told from a railroad
perspective, a unique way of exploring the history of the 19th-20th
Centuries. Here the reader will also find the sagas of the other
railways aligned both for and against the Second Reich:
Berlin-Baghdad, Trans-Siberian, Hejaz, African, Italian, American,
and more. Presented also are notable individual historic trains,
such as those of Kaiser Wilhelm II, Tsar Nicholas II, hospital
conveyances, differing gauges, railroad guns, armored trains,
Lenin's infamous "sealed train" through Germany to Russia, and much
more. Here, too, are the famous men who made "training" a
successful wartime tool: banker Bleichroder, soldiers von Moltke,
raider Lawrence of Arabia, Bulow and Hindenburg, and how French
Marshal Foch's railroad dining car became the focal point of the
Great War's final ending.From the very first German passenger
service to the Russian Civil War, this is epic railroading as a
military force.
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