BOOKS
To the Edge of the World
The Story of the Trans-Siberian Railway
Christian WolmarRRP: £16.99
6 November 2014
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9780857890382
RRP: £22.00
7 November 2013
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9780857890375
RRP: £7.99
7 November 2013
Published by Atlantic Books
ISBN: 9781782392040
Christian Wolmar expertly tells the story of the Trans-Siberian railway from its conception and construction under Tsar Alexander III, to the northern extension ordered by Brezhnev and its current success as a vital artery. He also explores the crucial role the line played in both the Russian Civil War -Trotsky famously used an armoured carriage as his command post – and the Second World War, during which the railway saved the country from certain defeat. Like the author’s previous railway histories, it focuses on the personalities, as well as the political and economic events, that lay behind one of the most extraordinary engineering triumphs of the nineteenth century.
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