Christian Wolmar is a writer and broadcaster. He is the author of The Subterranean Railway (Atlantic Books). He writes regularly for the Independent and Evening Standard, and frequently appears on TV and radio on current affairs and news programmes. Fire and Steam: A New History of the Railways in Britain was published by Atlantic Books in 2007.
25 Электронные книги Christian Wolmar
Christian Wolmar: Engines of War
Engines of War tells the dramatic story of how the railways revolutionized the nature of warfare, ushering in an age of industrialized conflict in which wars were fought on a previously unimaginable …
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Christian Wolmar: The Great Railway Revolution
In the 1830s, The United States underwent a second revolution. The opening of the Baltimore & Ohio line, the first American railroad, set in motion a process which, by the end of the century, would …
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Christian Wolmar: To the Edge of the World
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 …
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Christian Wolmar: Railways and The Raj
The epic story of the British construction of the railways in India, as told by Britain's bestselling transport historian.
'Christian Wolmar is Britain's foremost railway …
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Christian Wolmar: The Subterranean Railway
Since the Victorian era, London's Underground has had played a vital role in the daily life of generations of Londoners. In The Subterranean Railway, Christian Wolmar celebrates the vision and …
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Christian Wolmar: Fire and Steam
The opening of the pioneering Liverpool and Manchester Railway in 1830 marked the beginning of the railways' vital role in changing the face of Britain. Fire and Steam celebrates the vision and …
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Christian Wolmar: Blood, Iron and Gold
The birth of the railways and their rapid spread across the world triggered economic growth and social change on an unprecedented scale.
From Panama to the Punjab, Tasmania to Turin, Blood, Iron …
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Christian Wolmar: Are Trams Socialist?
Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied …
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€7.49
Christian Wolmar: Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere
Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to …
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€7.49
Mans Lonnroth & Elliott Sclar: Improving Urban Access
By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. To thrive, they will need efficient and sustainable forms of transport, but to achieve this, the financial incentives guiding urban …
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€73.24
Mans Lonnroth & Elliott Sclar: Improving Urban Access
By 2050, two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities. To thrive, they will need efficient and sustainable forms of transport, but to achieve this, the financial incentives guiding urban …
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€73.25
Mans (Former State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Sweden) Lonnroth & Elliott Sclar: Urban Access for the 21st Century
This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle c …
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€70.44
Mans (Former State Secretary, Ministry of Environment, Sweden) Lonnroth & Elliott Sclar: Urban Access for the 21st Century
This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on car dominated urban transport favouring the middle c …
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€70.44
Sue Goss & Stewart Lansley: Councils in Conflict
This book is a detailed examination of the rise of the Left in local councils, the subsequent battles with Mrs Thatcher’s government and the lessons gained from this …
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€51.23
Frederick A. Talbot: Railway Conquest of the World
There is an unfathomable fascination with the romance connected to the construction of great railways, yet little is known of the beginning and growth of the pioneering railways of the world, of the …
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€13.03
Christian Wolmar: Are Trams Socialist?
Transport is key to our daily lives. The transport system is essential to ensure the movement of people and goods, and most of us will use the roads or public transport every day. Vast sums are tied …
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€4.82
Christian Wolmar: Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere
Driverless cars are the future. That is what the tech giants, the auto industry and even the government want us to think. Almost daily there are media stories about how we will soon all be able to …
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€7.64
Christian Wolmar: Iron Road
A fascinating journey through the history of railways From the early steam trains to the high-speed bullet trains of today, The Iron Road tells the hidden stories of railway history- the inspired …
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€9.99
Christian Wolmar: Railways
From Britain’s most popular railway historian, a concise, authoritative and fast-paced telling of how the railways changed the world. The arrival of the railways in the first half of the nineteenth …
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€13.28
Christian Wolmar: Story of Crossrail
The story of an engineering marvel of the twenty-first century, from Britain’s bestselling railway writer.Crossrail, first conceived just after the Second World War in the era of Attlee and …
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€17.89
Christian Wolmar: Cathedrals of Steam
'Fascinating' 'Books of the Year', Financial Times
'London's twelve great rail termini are the epic survivors of the Victorian age… Wolmar brings them to life …
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Christian Wolmar: Driverless Cars: On a Road to Nowhere?
Wolmar’s entertaining polemic sets out the many technical, legal and moral problems that obstruct the path to a driverless future, and debunks many of the myths around that future’s purported …
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€10.99
Christian Wolmar: British Rail
The authoritative and fascinating history of the rise and fall of the state-owned British Rail’Wolmar’s book is impeccably organised and makes a fast, enjoyable read’ THE TIMES Literary …
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Christian Wolmar: The Liberation Line
'Highly original' Simon Heffer, Telegraph
'Masterful… A gripping tale' Giles Milton
They certainly were not soldiers, yet they suddenly found themselves in uniform, in a …
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Nicholas Faith: World the Railways Made
Across American praries, through Siberian tundra, over Argentinian pampas and deep into the heart of Africa, the modern world began with the arrival of the railway. The shock was sudden and …
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€8.86
