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  • THE PLANET AND SAMSON LOCOMOTIVES
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    THE PLANET AND SAMSON LOCOMOTIVES
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Robert Stephenson's Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was one of the most successful early locomotive designs. Planet set the mold for British locomotive design for more than the next century featuring a multi tubular boiler; inside cylinders; crank axle; and the first use of pr...

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  • THE RAILWAY THAT HELPED WIN THE CRIMEAN WAR
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    THE RAILWAY THAT HELPED WIN THE CRIMEAN WAR
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers’ supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to ...

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  • THE RAILWAY THAT HELPED WIN THE CRIMEAN WAR
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    THE RAILWAY THAT HELPED WIN THE CRIMEAN WAR
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Week after week, the guns of the British expeditionary force battered away at the defences of Sevastopol, eight miles away from Balaklava, the port through which all besiegers' supplies arrived. As autumn turned to winter, rain and frost turned the track from Balaklava into a muddy quagmire and soon it became virtually impassable. Horses were dying daily in their endeavours to ...

    $329.00

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  • REAL WAR HORSES
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    REAL WAR HORSES
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalr...

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  • THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL, 1854–1855
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    THE SIEGE OF SEVASTOPOL, 1854–1855
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    A history of the grueling Crimean War battle as told through personal accounts of those who fought there. The Crimean War, the most destructive and deadly war of the nineteenth century, has been the subject of countless books, yet historian Anthony Dawson has amassed an astonishing collection of previously unknown and unpublished material, including numerous letters and private...

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  • REAL WAR HORSES
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    REAL WAR HORSES
    ANTHONY LESLIE DAWSON
    Many histories have been written about the conflicts the British army was involved in between the Battle of Waterloo and the First World War. There are detailed studies of campaigns and battles and general accounts of the experiences of the soldiers. But this book by Anthony Dawson is the first to concentrate in depth, in graphic detail, on the experiences of the British cavalr...

    $345.05

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  • LOCOMOTIVES OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
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    LOCOMOTIVES OF THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    The Liverpool & Manchester Railway was Britain’s first mainline, intercity railway; opened in 1830 it was at the cutting edge of railway technology. Engineered by George Stephenson and his team – John Dixon, William Allcard, Joseph Locke – the project faced many obstacles both before and after opening, including local opposition and the choice of motive power, resulting in the ...

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  • THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
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    THE LIVERPOOL AND MANCHESTER RAILWAY
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    What day-to-day life was like for those who traveled and worked on the world’s first intercity railway in early nineteenth-century England. Much has been written about the Liverpool & Manchester Railway, especially how it came into being and the Rainhill Trials, but very little has been said about what happened after the grand opening on 15 September 1830. Drawing on years of r...

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  • THE PLANET AND SAMSON LOCOMOTIVES
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    THE PLANET AND SAMSON LOCOMOTIVES
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    Robert Stephenson’s Planet class locomotive was the first true design of mainline express passenger locomotive. Delivered less than a year after Rocket it was one of the most successful early locomotive designs. Planet set the mold for British locomotive design for more than the next century featuring a multi tubular boiler; inside cylinders; crank axle; and the first use of pr...

    $472.99

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  • LETTERS FROM THE LIGHT BRIGADE
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    LETTERS FROM THE LIGHT BRIGADE
    ANTHONY DAWSON
    "Dozens of graphic first-hand accounts of the Charge of the Light Brigade emerge to shed new light on the military blunder immortalised by Tennyson's poem" (The Telegraph (UK)). The Charge of the Light Brigade is one of the most famous, controversial and emotive small-scale actions in military history. Over 160 years since the event, and since it was immortalized in Tennyson's ...

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