Christian Wolmar: Engines of War [2010] hardback HISTO has the same dinner each

has the same dinner each night (fish and chips

'This exquisite book charts the rise and fall of Henry VIII's first wife

He explores what remains of the Lyngen Line mountain bunkers in the Norwegian Alps - where the Allies feared a last stand by fanatical Nazis - and where starved Soviet prisoners of war too weak to work were dumped in death camps

in a double line moving forwards about a hundred yards an hour

Christian Wolmar: Engines of War [2010] hardback HISTO has the same dinner eachBefore the nineteenth century, armies had to rely on slow and unreliable methods of transportation to move soldiers and equipment during times of conflict. But with the birth of the railroad in the early 1830s, the way wars were fought would change forever. In Engines of War, renowned expert Christian Wolmar tells the story of that transformation, examining all the engagements in which railways played a part from the Crimean War and American Civil War