Fifty years or more ago the very sight of once resplendent steam engines being towed away & then ignominiously reduced to chunks of unrecognizable metal was ignored by most
- it was simply something that most did not wish to see. But years later the process is itself part of history. The transition from steam whereby hundreds if not thousands of steam engines
- some little more than a decade old
- were rendered redundant surplus to the requirements of the 'modern' railway. Author Jeffrey Grayer
- renowned for his highly popular & successful Impermanent Ways & Sabotaged & Defeated series has now covered the disposal of Southern era steam engines starting from the very early days right through to the end of steam in 1967. The result is a fascinating record of those times while although sad have their own distinctive place in railway history.



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OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

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Autumn 1541. King Henry VIII has set out on a spectacular Progress to the North to attend an extravagant submission of his rebellious subjects in York. Already in the city are lawyer Matthew Shardlake & his assistant Jack Barak. As well as assisting with legal work processing petitions to the King Shardlake has reluctantly undertaken a special mission -- to ensure the welfare of an important but dangerous conspirator being returned to London for interrogation. But the murder of a local glazier involves Shardlake in deeper mysteries connected not only to the prisoner in York Castle but to the royal family itself. & when Shardlake & Barak stumble upon a cache of secret papers which could threaten the Tudor throne a chain of events unfolds that will lead Shardlake facing the most terrifying fate of the age.. .' Sansom is a master storyteller' Guardian ' So compulsive that until you reach its final page you'll have to be almost physically prised away from it' Sunday Times ' Deeper stronger & subtler than The Name of the Rose' Independent on Sunday ...

This book provides a comprehensive survey of Soviet economic development from 1917 to 1965 in the context of the pre-revolutionary economy. In these years the Soviet Union negotiated the first stages of modern industrialisation & then after the defeat of Nazi Germany & its allies emerged as one of the two world superpowers. This was also the first attempt to construct a planned socialist order. These developments resulted in great economic achievements at great human cost. Using the results of recent Russian & Western research Professor Davies discusses the inherent faults & strengths of the system & pays particular attention to the major controversies. Was the Russian Revolution doomed to failure from the outset? Could the mixed economy of the 1920s have led to a democratic socialist economy? What was the influence of Soviet economic development on the rest of the world? ...

From June 1941 the Soviets were forced to undertake large-scale defensive operations in the face of the overwhelming German blitzkrieg assault operations which ran counter to their preference for highly mobile offensive warfare. Lessons were quickly learned across a wide variety of terrain & climates including the open steppes dense forests wooded swamps cities & in snow & ice where the availability of construction materials differed greatly. The first to cover this topic in the English language & containing detailed information about the trenches bunkers observation posts & weapon positions this book examines field fortifications built from local materials by infantrymen as well as their use of mines field camouflage techniques & construction tools. It provides a first fascinating insight into Russian defensive attempts against the overwhelming might of the German Army. ...

Following the destruction wrought on the Red Army Air Forces during the first days of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941 the Soviet Union found itself desperately short of fighter aircraft. Premier Josef Stalin duly appealed directly to Prime Minister Winston Churchill for replacement aircraft & in late 1941 the British delivered the first of 3360 Hurricanes that would be supplied to the Soviet Union under the Lend-Lease agreement. Specifically requested by the USSR the Hurricanes were quickly thrown into action in early 1942
- the Soviet Air Forces most difficult year in their opposition to the Luftwaffe. Virtually all the Hurricanes were issued to Soviet fighter regiments in the northern sector of the front where pilots were initially trained to fly the aircraft by RAF personnel that had accompanied the early Hawker fighters to the USSR. The Hurricane proved to be an easy aircraft to master even for the poorly trained young Soviet pilots allowing the Red Army to form quickly a large number of new fighter regiments in the polar area. In spite of a relatively poor top speed & only a modest rate-of-climb the Hurricane was the mount of at least 17 Soviet aces.
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This is the first volume of an integrated documentary history of the Soviet Union. The Soviet story
- the revolution Lenin Stalinism
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