Railroad of Death
Author: John Coast
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905802937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The original, classic account of the "River Kwai" railway
Author: John Coast
Publisher:
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781905802937
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The original, classic account of the "River Kwai" railway
Author: John Coast
Publisher:
Published: 1947
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The experiences of a British officer captured by the Japanese in Singapore, who worked on the Bangkok-Moulmein railway.
Author: Mark Aldrich
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2006-04-10
Total Pages: 492
ISBN-13: 9780801882364
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"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."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: H. Roger Grant
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 1996-10-01
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780804727983
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: Quarto Publishing Group USA
Published: 2006-11-15
Total Pages: 249
ISBN-13: 1616737603
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An American Marine recounts his ordeal as a World War II POW forced by the Japanese to build the railway immortalized in The Bridge on the River Kwai. 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, such as 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. Praise for Last Man Out “A remarkable story, long overdue, of the treatment of POW’s captured by Japan.” —Arthur L. Maher, USN, Senior officer to survive sinking of the USS Houston, POW of the Japanese in World War II “In World War II, to move materials and troops from Japan to Burma by avoiding the perilous sea route around the Malay Peninsula, the Japanese military built a railroad through the jungles of Thailand and Burma at great human cost to its prisoner laborers. Last Man Out is an effective addition to the history of this tragedy.” —Library Journal
Author: Pat Parks
Publisher:
Published: 1968
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 9780978894993
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"Begun in 1905 and built by Henry Flagler, the Florida East Coast Railway Key West Extension was called the Eighth Wonder of the World. This 100th Anniversary edition tells the story of the Overseas Railroad. It is illustrated with over 50 carefully reproduced vintage photographs. A masterpiece of railroad engineering, the Extension traversed magnificent concrete spans above Florida Keys waters from the mainland to Key West. It opened in 1912 and, for three decades, thousands of passengers enjoyed the breathtaking trip across brilliant seas and tropical islands. The devastating Labor Day hurricane of September 2, 1935, brought an end to The Railroad That Went to Sea. Today US 1 highway travels upon the route of the original railroad."--Amazon.
Author: Robert Sherman La Forte
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780842024280
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Generosity amid the greatest cruelty, Building the Death Railway gives the American perspective on events that shocked the world.
Author: Katie Letcher Lyle
Publisher:
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780945575016
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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: J. P. Daughton
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2021-07-20
Total Pages: 384
ISBN-13: 0393541029
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →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.