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Author | : John Coast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014-05-13 |
Genre | : Prisoners of war |
ISBN | : 9781905802937 |
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The original, classic account of the "River Kwai" railway
Author | : John Coast |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 1947 |
Genre | : Burma-Siam Railway |
ISBN | : |
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The experiences of a British officer captured by the Japanese in Singapore, who worked on the Bangkok-Moulmein railway.
Author | : Mark Aldrich |
Publisher | : Johns Hopkins University Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009-11-09 |
Genre | : Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | : 9780801894022 |
Download Death Rode the Rails Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
For most of the 19th and much of the 20th centuries, railroads dominated American transportation. They transformed life and captured the imagination. Yet by 1907 railroads had also become the largest cause of violent death in the country, that year claiming the lives of nearly twelve thousand passengers, workers, and others. In Death Rode the Rails Mark Aldrich explores the evolution of railroad safety in the United States by examining a variety of incidents: spectacular train wrecks, smaller accidents in shops and yards that devastated the lives of workers and their families, and the deaths of thousands of women and children killed while walking on or crossing the street-grade tracks. The evolution of railroad safety, Aldrich argues, involved the interplay of market forces, science and technology, and legal and public pressures. He considers the railroad as a system in its entirety: operational realities, technical constraints, economic history, internal politics, and labor management. Aldrich shows that economics initially encouraged American carriers to build and operate cheap and dangerous lines. Only over time did the trade-off between safety and output—shaped by labor markets and public policy—motivate carriers to develop technological improvements that enhanced both productivity and safety. A fascinating account of one of America's most important industries and its dangers, Death Rode the Rails will appeal to scholars of economics and the history of transportation, technology, labor, regulation, safety, and business, as well as to railroad enthusiasts.
Author | : H. Roger Grant |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 1996-10-01 |
Genre | : Transportation |
ISBN | : 9780804727983 |
Download Erie Lackawanna Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This 50-year saga of the "Weary Erie" describes in vivid detail the turbulent last decades of a colorful, spunky, and innovative railroad. It also tells us much about what happened to American railroading, during this period: technological change, governmental over-regulation, corporate mergers, union "featherbedding," uneven executive leadership, and changing patterns of travel and business. The book is illustrated with 45 photographs and drawings and 4 maps.
Author | : H. Robert Charles |
Publisher | : Motorbooks |
Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Burma-Siam Railway |
ISBN | : 9780760328200 |
Download Last Man Out Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From June 1942 to October 1943, more than 100,000 Allied POWs who had been forced into slave labor by the Japanese died building the infamous Burma-Thailand Death Railway, an undertaking immortalized in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai." One of the few who survived was American Marine H. Robert Charles, who describes the ordeal in vivid and harrowing detail in Last Man Out. The story mixes the unimaginable brutality of the camps with the inspiring courage of the men, including a Dutch Colonial Army doctor whose skill and knowledge of the medicinal value of wild jungle herbs saved the lives of hundreds of his fellow POWs, including the author.
Author | : H. Hovinga |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2010-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004253718 |
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This is the gripping historical tragedy of the 220 km railroad that bored its way through the hot, humid Sumatran jungle during World War II. The railway was commissioned by Japan and built with the blood and tears of Allied prisoners of war and press-ganged Javanese romushas. Henk Hovinga interviewed nearly one hundred former railroad workers and did painstaking archival research. The result is a moving book, richly illustrated with numerous authentic drawings of life in the internment camps, charts and photographs.
Author | : J. P. Daughton |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2021-07-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0393541029 |
Download In the Forest of No Joy: The Congo-Océan Railroad and the Tragedy of French Colonialism Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad and the human costs and contradictions of modern empire. The Congo-Océan railroad stretches across the Republic of Congo from Brazzaville to the Atlantic port of Pointe-Noir. It was completed in 1934, when Equatorial Africa was a French colony, and it stands as one of the deadliest construction projects in history. Colonial workers were subjects of an ostensibly democratic nation whose motto read “Liberty, Equality, Fraternity,” but liberal ideals were savaged by a cruelly indifferent administrative state. African workers were forcibly conscripted and separated from their families, and subjected to hellish conditions as they hacked their way through dense tropical foliage—a “forest of no joy”; excavated by hand thousands of tons of earth in order to lay down track; blasted their way through rock to construct tunnels; or risked their lives building bridges over otherwise impassable rivers. In the process, they suffered disease, malnutrition, and rampant physical abuse, likely resulting in at least 20,000 deaths. In the Forest of No Joy captures in vivid detail the experiences of the men, women, and children who toiled on the railroad, and forces a reassessment of the moral relationship between modern industrialized empires and what could be called global humanitarian impulses—the desire to improve the lives of people outside of Europe. Drawing on exhaustive research in French and Congolese archives, a chilling documentary record, and heartbreaking photographic evidence, J.P. Daughton tells the epic story of the Congo-Océan railroad, and in doing so reveals the human costs and contradictions of modern empire.
Author | : Richard Flanagan |
Publisher | : Random House |
Total Pages | : 465 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1784701386 |
Download The Narrow Road to the Deep North Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
***WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014*** Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the rest of humanity, who were not. In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway, surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncleâe(tm)s young wife two years earlier. Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation, from cholera, from beatings, he receives a letter that will change his life forever. Hailed as a masterpiece, Richard Flanaganâe(tm)s epic novel tells the unforgettable story of one manâe(tm)s reckoning with the truth.
Author | : Katie Letcher Lyle |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Ballads, English |
ISBN | : 9780945575016 |
Download Scalded to Death by the Steam Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the definitive book on the famous train wrecks from the Steam Age and the folk songs those wrecks inspired. From The Wreck of the Old 97 to Billy Richardson's Last Ride, Katie Letcher Lyle includes it all -- the fascinating stories behind the wrecks, the song lyrics, and the songs themselves, transcribed for easy guitar accompaniment.
Author | : Robert P. Palazzo |
Publisher | : Imaginary Lines, Inc. |
Total Pages | : 132 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780738574790 |
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Railroads have played an important part in the history of Death Valley. The Pacific Coast Borax Company first used the Death Valley Railroad to transport its ore to market and then to transport Death Valley tourists to its Furnace Creek Resort. "Death Valley Scotty's" leap to national fame came as a direct result of his chartering a private train to break the Los Angeles to Chicago speed record. The Carson & Colorado Railroad on the west and the Tonopah & Tidewater Railroad on the east provided support to Death Valley's mining activity, its associated boomtowns, and early tourism.