The Railway Over the Stainmore Pass : Post-War Boom and Bust on the North Trans Pennine, Chris Rowley

The Railway Over the Stainmore Pass : Post-War Boom and Bust on the North Trans Pennine, Chris RowleyNew Hardback The North Pennine range that separates the industrial North East and County Durham from Lakeland and the North West is a remote and beautiful wilderness of moorland and high Pennine fells. It was here that the Stockton & Darlington, the birthplace of public railways, struck out west in the most dramatic of all the Pennine crossings. A main line that rose to 1370 feet Englands highest. Built to link the blast furnaces of Teesside and

at times confusion and panic prevailed

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When he accepts the office as general agent of the former Prussian royal house of the Hohenzollerns in 1942

Forget Me Not is a clarion call: we all need to play a part in tackling this most existential of threats

the unparalleled action on the Western Front and the interaction and camaraderie experienced between soldiers and airmen held in prison camps in England

that is both ferociously clever and supremely enjoyable

drama and incident

which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific   Spices drove the early modern world economy

uncanny and otherworldly

and whom he fears could be burned as a heretic

writing itself often felt like a battle

It is also compelling reading because it records in day-to-day detail what such a bitter defeat was like and shows how individual soldiers somehow survived through their bravery