In the long and absorbing history of Britain's railways, the most challenging years were those of the two World Wars, when they were needed the most. Transporta

Trains to Victory tells the dramatic story of the years 1941-1945 when U.S. railroads, using fewer cars and locomotives than in WWI, moved more tonnage and more

In the seven decades since the darkest moments of the Second World War it seems every tenebrous corner of the conflict has been laid bare, prodded and examined

From the American Civil War onwards, railways have been an important aspect of war. So important were the railways that in the First World War, the state took c

War is a brutal thing. Countries clash in a grand struggle for power, while belligerent nations mobilize their vast resources to tackle their opponents head-on.