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To the edge of the world / Christian Wolmar.

Title
To the edge of the world / Christian Wolmar.
Author
Wolmar, Christian.
Publication
London Atlantic Books, 2013.

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Description
xx, 284 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"It is the world's longest railway line. But it is so much more than that, too. The Trans-Siberian stretches nearly 6,000 miles between Moscow and Vladivostok on the Pacific Coast and was the most ambitious railway project in the nineteenth century. A journey on the railway evokes a romantic roam through the Russian steppes, but also reminds travellers of the vastness of our world and hints at the hardships that were endured in its construction. 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. Show More Show Less"--Publisher's description.
Alternative Title
  • Story of the Trans-Siberian railway
  • Story of the Trans-Siberian express, the world's greatest railway
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
A slow embrace -- Holding on to Siberia -- Witte's breakthrough -- Into the steppe -- Travels and travails -- Casus Belli -- The new Siberia -- Russia all the way -- The battle for the Trans-Siberian -- The big red railway -- The other Trans-Siberian -- The greatest railway.
ISBN
  • 9780857890375 (hbk)
  • 0857890379 (hbk)
  • 9781782392040 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
OCLC
  • 863184202
  • SCSB-11625319
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library