The Grand Crimean Central Railway - the railway that won a war by Cooke, Brian

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United Kingdom: Cavalier House, 1990. 1st Edition . Soft cover. Fine/No Jacket. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. paperback, 176 pages, a couple of page corners creased otherwise fine. We are a real bookshop with real books situated in and shipping from the United Kingdom. Shelf N39..

GB: Cavalier House, 1997. Red covers with train in oval on front cover. Book is in very fine condition with virtually no signs of wear and/or age. . 2nd Edition. Paperback. Fine.

Cavalier House. Fair. 1997. Paperback. Paperback; heavy foxing and blemish to edge of pages, in faded, scratched and marked card covers. A reference copy. Second, revised and expanded edition. ; The story of the railway built by a British civilian workforce at Balaklava during the Crimean War of 1854-46. Illustrated. ; 180 pages .

Knutsford: Cavalier House, 1990. Book. As New. Soft cover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. x + 177 pages, 260g. Card covers As NEW. Illustrated with b/w photographs and route maps. This book recounts the story of the undertaking and the crucial part it played in the course of the war..

Cavalier House. Good. 1997. Paperback. Paperback; ink date to interor of cover, otherwise good in faded and creased card covers. Second, revised and expanded edition. ; The story of the railway built by a British civilian workforce at Balaklava during the Crimean War of 1854-46. Illustrated. ; 180 pages .

Cavalier House, 1997. Softcover. AS NEW COPY!. MILITARY GENERAL RAILWAYS Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defenses of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable.Horses were dying daily in their endeavors to pull carts up the hills to the siege lines, and with few supplies reaching the front, the troops suffered terribly from malnutrition and frostbite. Unless a solution could be found, the entire operation was doomed to humiliating, disastrous failure.When news of the terrible plight of the troops reached the UK, a leading railway contractor and his partners undertook to build a railway at cost from Balaklava to the front line – and promised that they could construct it in just three weeks after they arrived in the Crimea. Though it took almost… Read More