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PRATT (Edwin A.)
British Railways and the Great War: Organisation, Efforts, Difficulties & Achievements.
1st Ed., 2 vols., xvi+1194pp. in all, 72 photos., 23 maps & diagrams. Selwyn & Blount.
1921
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Fine & detailed, absolutely comprehensive history of all aspects of the various railway companies (GWR, L&SWR, GER, LNER &c.), in wartime: higher organisation & co-ordination, military ambulance trains, troop traffic arrangements, enlistment of railwaymen, carriage of explosives, The Euston-Thurso Naval Special, railways & the air-raids, the work of railway companies' steamers, ports (Harwich, Richborough &c.), railways overseas, travel restrictions, employment of women. Falls thought "Mr Pratt's history is somewhat too verbose & technical for the general reader, but that abstract individual will find much to interest himself therein, while the professional is well catered for." Orig. green cloth, gilt, VG & scarce. See illustration on our website.
£125
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